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pursued his studies of systematic botany, and, in completing his 

 floras of India and Ceylon, accomplished an amount of work, 

 in this period of well-earned rest, that would be an ample output 

 for the lifetime of most men. 



Hooker became President of the British Association in 1868, was 

 President of the Eoyal Society from 1873-1878, received the 

 Grand Cross of the Star of India in 1897 ; and, on his ninetieth 

 birthday, the King conferred upon him the crowning distinction of 

 the Order of Merit. 



Ever modest concerning his own work, yet generous beyond 

 measure in his estimation of the labours of others, Hooker was the 

 most devoted and helpful of friends. Nevertheless, he knew when 

 it was ' well to be angry.' The same stern determination with 

 which he met the opposition of Sikkim officials and Tibetan guards, 

 made him in later years a doughty champion of science, when its 

 interests were threatened by officialism at home; and no less 

 active in protest and action did he prove, when abuses were sus- 

 pected by him in the Societies with which he was connected. 



Sir Joseph Hooker was twice married : first to the daughter of 

 the botanist and geologist Henslow, and secondly to the daughter 

 of another esteemed Fellow of this Society, the Rev. W. S. Symonds 

 of Pendock. Happy in his peaceful home and much-loved garden, 

 working steadily to the last on a favourite group of plants, equally 

 acknowledged as the foremost naturalist in his own land and the 

 doyen of botanists all over the world, in ripeness of years and 

 in fulness of honour, he passed away on December 10th, 1911. 



To many of us it had seemed only fitting that his remains 

 should lie beside those of his two life-long friends and fellow- 

 workers — Lyell and Darwin — in the Abbey of Westminster ; but 

 his own modest wishes were rightly respected, and he was buried in 

 the loved Surrey village, now become a city-suburb, where so many 

 of his years were passed, the spot which the labours of his father 

 and himself had made ' the Mecca of Botanists.' [J. W. J.] 



Prof. Thomas Pupert Jones was born in London on October 1st, . 

 1819, and was educated in private schools at Taunton and Ilminster. 

 He was destined for the medical profession, and served his ap- 

 prenticeship, first with Mr. Hugh Norris at Taunton, and finally 

 with Dr. Joseph Bunny at Newbury (Berkshire). While a boy at 

 Ilminster, he became interested in the ammonites and other fossils 

 which were common in the quarries in the Upper Lias of that 



