JANUARY, I912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. it 
Botany, he took the degree of M.D. in 1839, being shortly afterwards 
appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to the Antarctic Expedition 
under Sir James Ross. After a four years’ adventurous voyage, during 
which he accumulated a valuable series of specimens and observations, he 
published a series of six fine quarto volumes, under the titles, Flora 
Antarctica, Flora Nove-Zelandia, and Flora Tasmania. In 1847 he visited 
the Himalayas, spending three years in studying the geography and flora 
of that remarkable region, and making extensive collections. The story of. 
the expedition, including details of the Orchid life of the region, is told in 
Fig. 2. THE LATE SIR JOSEPH HOOKER. 
his Himalayan Journals, two delightful volumes which were published in 
1854. Avyear later he was appointed Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, and on his father’s death, in 1865, succeeded to the 
Directorship, which he held for twenty years. In 1860 he visited Syria 
and Palestine, and in 1871 undertook an expedition to the mountains of 
Morocco, in company with Mr. John Ball, F.r.s., and Mr. George Maw, 
while in 1877 he made a botanical tour in the Rocky Mountains of North 
America, in company with the late Dr. Asa Gray. In 1873 he was elected 
