THE 
AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. L.—Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
_ Sir Witt1am Jackson Hooker died at Kew, after a short 
illness, on the 12th of August last, in the eighty-first year of 
is age. | , 
Seldom, if ever before, has the death of a botanist been so 
The incidents of his life are soon told. He was born on the a 
6th of J uly, 1785, at Norwich, England, where his father,— 
ity _ The name Willi 
rts and godfather, 
ch he earl developed | for 3 
for omithology. But the 
