SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER / 



containing his journals, plant-lists, notes, drawings, and letters 

 to his father, there is one small note-book in the Botanical De- 

 partment of the British Museum in which Hooker has entered 

 lists of the plants observed in the various islands touched at in 

 the earlier part of the voyage, with a few analytical notes and 

 drawings, the latter evincing the botanical precision and finished 

 draughtsmanship that characterize all his work with pencil and 

 brush. Eeaching Madeira in the middle of October, they spent 

 eleven days there, and visited Teneriffe, the Cape Verd Islands, 

 and St. Paul's Rocks in the following month, then crossing to 

 the almost inaccessible island of South Trinidad en route for St. 

 Helena, which was visited in February, 1840. After two days in 

 Simon's Bay in April, colder latitudes were reached, with their 

 profusion of Macrocystis pyrifera, and, after an ineffectual attempt 

 to land on the Crozet Islands, two-and-a-half wdnter months were 

 passed at Kerguelen's Island. Tasmania was reached in August, 

 1840, and left in November, the spring months being spent at 

 Lord Auckland's Islands and Campbell's Island. After the 

 voyage southward to the ice-barrier in lat. 78° S., and the dis- 

 covery of Mounts Erebus and Terror, respectively an active and 

 an extinct volcano, the expedition returned to Hobart Town in 

 April, 1841, visited Sydney in July, and anchored for three 

 months (August-November) in the Bay of Islands. Here Hooker, 

 with the assistance of Bev. William Colenso and others, collected 

 materials for his Neio Zealand Flora. A second cruise, along the 

 ice-border, begun in November, 1841, brought the explorers to 

 the Falkland Islands in April, 1842, where they remained till 

 September, so that Hooker was able practically to complete the 

 work of Gaudichaud and D'Urville. In September a visit to 

 Hermit Island, near Cape Horn, led to Sir James Ross's futile 

 attempt to introduce Fagus antarctica and F. betuloides into the 

 Falklands. The third cruise southward included a visit to 

 Cockburn's Island in lat. 64°, the flora of which comprised only 

 three sea-weeds, and seventeen other cryptogams. After passing 

 from the zone of Scytothalia Jacquinotii south of 63° S., and that 

 of Macrocystis and Durvillea between 55° and 51°, the expedition 

 regained the Cape of Good Hope just three years after leaving it. 



Meanwhile Hooker's earliest papers were published during his 

 absence, the first of them belonging to directions of w^ork, which, 

 after a few years, he abandoned. The first, a joint paper with 

 William Henry Harvey, was on Indian Mosses, in his father's 

 Joicrnal of Botany, while the earliest of which he appears as sole 

 author is a short note on Fossil Wood from Macquarie Plains, 

 Tasmania, in the Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science. 



His inherited interest in the lower Cryptogamia was further 

 evinced in the preliminary publications of his Antarctic results 

 — the Musci Antarctici, jointly with William Wilson ; the 

 Lichenes Antarcticce, with Thomas Taylor, published in 1844 ; 

 and the Algce Antarcticce and the Algce Novce Zealanclioi with 

 Harvey, published in the following year. Not only was Hooker 

 the part author of these papers ; but his name appears also with 



