542 LETTERS TO DARWIN AND OTHERS. [1866, 



Science " ^ a memoir of Ms dear friend, Sir William 

 Hooker, in which, after describing his immense labors 

 in publications of so many different branches, he 

 says : — 



" Our survey of what Sir William Hooker did for 

 science would be incomplete indeed if it were con- 

 fined to his published works, numerous and important 

 as they are, and the wise and efficient administration 

 through which, in a short space of twenty-four years, 

 a queen's flower and kitchen garden and pleasure 

 grounds have been transformed into an imperial bo- 

 tanical establishment of unrivaled interest and value. 

 Account should be taken of the spirit in which he 

 worked, of the researches and explorations he pro- 

 moted, of the aid and encouragement he extended to 

 his fellow-laborers, especially to young and rising bot- 

 anists, and of the means and appliances he gathered 

 for their use no less than his own. 



" The single-mindedness with which he gave himself 

 to Ms scientific work, and the conscientiousness with 

 which he lived for science while he lived by it, were 

 above all praise. Eminently fitted to shine in society 

 ... he never dissipated his time and energies in the 

 round of fashionable life, but ever avoided the social 

 prominence and worldly distractions which some sed- 

 ulously seek. . . . 



" Nor was there in him the least manifestation of a 

 tendency to overshadow the science with his own im- 

 portance, or of indifference to its general advance- 

 ment. . . . 



" To the wide circle of botanists in which he has 

 long filled so conspicuous a place, ... it is superflu- 



1 Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, selected by C. S. Sargent, vol. ii. p. 

 321 ; also ia. American Journal Science and Arts, 2 ser., xli. p. 1 (1866). 



