wee Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
other botanist who could have come into competition with him 
in this respect. The office, moreover, was no pecuniary prize; 
the salary being only three hundred pounds a year (less, we 
lieve, than the retiring pension of his unscientific superannuated 
predecessor), “with two hundred pounds to enable him to rent 
such a house as should accommodate his herbarium and library, 
by this time of immense extent, and essential, we need not say, 
to the working of the establishment, whether in a scientific or 
economic he of view.” The salary, if we mistake not, has 
since been increased in some moderate proportion to the ep es 
responsibilities and cares of the vast concern; but, up t 
eath, so important an auxiliary as his ‘unrivalled ee ee 
and the greatest scientific attraction of the institution, was le 
to be supported (excepting some incidental aid) out of the Di- 
s. 
Such record as arate here a of Sir William Hook er as 
same time prepared to advance by degrees, he at once won the 
confidence of that branch of the government under which he 
worked..... To those in office abo im, he imparted much 
of the zeal and interest he himself felt, which was proved by 
constant visits to the gardens, resulting in invariable approval 
_ of what he was doing, and promises of aid for the future. An- 
, ‘other means at his disposal, and which he at once brought to 
We refer of course to Dr. Lindley; and now while revising the f of this 
——* the sad intelligence reaches oS that he also is ae vasbe t thik hia coetiacaet 
d remarkable man died, of apoplexy, on ricag first of November, at the 
mee is seg sat pide bale that Dr, Padley' s health became seriously impaired a 
two ago, and that his scienti tific its had to be given up, with slight hope that 
y could ever be rene epnleomepere ed the impression, however,— 
ffusi a knowledge - ‘itain, 
erally, Baar ccas mr be exe on lasting gratitude of 
other name will suggest to - tno with hi i j 
regrd; bt we eet ester shad which that may be added to an 
