g Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
rare and curious Moss, Buxbaumia aphylla, which he took to his 
eminent townsman, Sir James Edward Smith, directed his atten- 
tion to Botany, and fixed the bent of his long and active life. 
e now made extensive botanical tours through the wildest parts 
of Scotland, the Hebrides and the Orkneys, which his lithe and 
athletic frame and great activity fitted him keenly to enjoy. 
Coming up to London he made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph 
Banks and of the botanists he had drawn around him, Dryander, 
time to revolutionize the island,—with which the disaster to the 
vessel he returned in wasin some way connected, we forget how. 
Not disheartened by these losses, he now turned from a polar to 
an equatorial region, and made extensive preparations for going 
to Ceylon, with Sir Robert Brownrigg, then appointed Governor. 
But the disturbances which broke out in that island, more serious 
than those which attended the close of his Iceland tour, again 
frustrated his endeavors. 
The strong disposition for travel and distant exploration, 
strated in his own case, came to fruit abundantly in the next 
generation, in the world-wide explorations of his son. He him- 
self made no more distant journey than to Switzerland, Italy, 
and France, in 1814, becoming personally acquainted with the 
principal botanists of the day, and laying the foundations of his 
wide correspondence and great botanical collections. In 1815 
he married the eldest daughter of the late Dawson Turner, of 
Yarmouth, and established his residence at Halesworth, in Suf- 
folk. The next year, in 1816, besides publishing some of the 
Musci and Hep of Humboldt and Bonpland’s collection, he 
brought to completion his first great botanical work, the British 
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tration. In 1828 he brought out, in conjunction with Dr. Tay- 
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