Sir William Jackson Hooker. 9 
importance, or of indifference to its general advancement. Far ® 
from monopolizing even the choicest botanical materials which 
large expenditure of time and toil and money brought into his 
hands, he delighted in setting other botanists to work upon 
whatever portion they wished to elaborate; not only imparting 
reely, even to comparatively young and untried men of promise 
the multitude of specimens a could distribute, and giving to all 
comers full access to his whole herbarium, but sending por- 
the different British colonies and possessions, scattered over 
every part of the world. Some of these (that of Hongkong and 
that of the British West Indies) are already completed; others 
] h and Son- 
_ tion with others is partly seen in the various nam 
Associated with his in authorship. This came in 
, of subjects over which his s 
