SIK WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER. 



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though he tells me he saw much of Thibet.' Mr. Manning is, to this 

 day, the only Englishman who ever entered the sacred city of Lhassa. 

 "What is more remarkable is that his journal was lost to geographers till 

 Sir Clements Markham happily found it in the possession of a cousin of 

 his own in Norfolk. See ' Narratives of the Mission of G. Bogle to 

 Thibet and of the Journey of T. Manning to Lhassa,' ed. 2, 1879, by Sir 

 C. Markham, a book full of curious information. 



" My father's Halesworth life was now drawing to a close. The 

 brewery business, as might have been expected under the management of 

 an enthusiastic naturalist and author, had proved unsatisfactory, and 

 some of his investments were disappointing. Personally his menage 

 was entirely inexpensive and simple, and this was so throughout his 

 life ; but his lavish expenditure on his own unremunerative publica- 

 tions, and on the purchase and beautiful binding of expensive entomo- 

 logical, ornithological, and especially botanical and even archaeological 

 and artistic works, had crippled his resources, and he had now a wife and 

 family of four to provide for. Under these circumstances he wrote to his 

 friend Sir Joseph Banks requesting that he might be informed should 

 he hear of any opportunity of applying his botanical knowledge to the 

 improvement of his income. Sir Joseph promptly answered that the 

 Professorship of Botany was vacant in the University of Glasgow, and 

 that he was ready to use his influence to obtain it for him should he 

 desire to become a candidate. My father answered favourably, and at 

 once left for Spring Grove, where he was hospitably received by Sir 

 Joseph, who told him that the emoluments of the chair, though small, 

 would certainly increase ; that it was freed from all medical duties ; that 

 a really noble botanical garden had been formed at Glasgow, to which 

 the University had given £2,000 and the City i3,000, and towards the 

 development of which he could assure him that Kew would place all its 

 resources." 



II. Glasgow, 1820-1810. 



" Early in February, 1820, my father was appointed by the Crown to 

 the Chair of Botany in Glasgow, and having despatched his library, 

 herbarium, and household effects to London, to be thence sent by smack 

 to Leith, and on to Glasgow by canal, he severed his connection with 

 Halesworth and the brewery. In May he presented himself before the 

 Senate of the University, who gave him a flattering reception, read his 

 inaugural thesis (the Latinity of which, thanks to his classical father-in- 

 law, was highly praised), and was duly installed, with the welcome 

 addition of having the honour of LL.D. conferred upon him. 



" Before enlarging on my father's success as a lecturer, I may premise 

 that the teaching of botany in the first quarter of the last century was 

 very different from that which now prevails. It was regarded as ancillary 

 to that of Materia Medica, and as a means of enabling the practitioner to 

 recognise the plants used in medicine when there might be no druggist 

 to appeal to. Furthermore, it was required by the principal examining 

 bodies for medical degrees or licences that the candidate should have 

 attended a course of lectures delivered in a botanical garden registered 



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