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the expedition under Captain Franklin, which was carried on in 
the years 1825-6-7, Dr Bichardson surveyed with great ability 
the sea-coast between the Mackenzie and the Coppermine Kivers ; 
and after his return, he resumed and continued his duties at 
Chatham till 1838, when he was promoted to the rank of physician 
to Haslar Hospital, and Inspector of Naval Hospitals and Fleets — 
a situation which gave him leisure to pursue the studies to which 
he had been so long devoted. His services, however, were too 
valuable to be dispensed with ; and though now in the sixtieth 
year of his age, he set out with Dr Eae, in 1848, in search of Sir 
John Franklin and his party. After encountering perils both on 
land and sea, and surmounting difficulties of no ordinary kind, he 
returned to England in 1849, and continued for six years in the 
charge of Haslar Hospital. In 1855 he retired from the public 
service, to which he had devoted himself for nearly half a century, 
and settled at Lancrigg, in Westmoreland, where he died on the 
5th January 1865, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. 
Sir John received the honour of knighthood in 1846, and was 
afterwards made a Companion of the Bath. He was a Fellow of 
the Koyal, Linnean, and Geological Societies, and a member of 
various philosophical societies, both in this country and the Con- 
tinent. 
Sir John is the author of the Fauna Borealis Americana^ and of 
works on almost every branch of natural history, several of which 
appeared as appendices to the voyages of different Arctic naviga- 
tors. He contributed several articles to the “British Encyclo- 
paedia,” and was one of the editors of the “ Museum of Natural 
History.” 
Sir William Jackson Hooker, a distinguished botanist, was born 
at Norwich on the 6th of July 1785, and received his early educa- 
tion at the High School of that city. His father, who was a man of 
literary tastes, possessed a collection of rare and curious plants ; and 
it was no doubt from this circumstance that he was led to the early 
study of botany. Having inherited from his godfather, William 
Jackson, Esq., a considerable landed property, he resolved to devote 
himself to scientific pursuits ; but in order to improve his lands, he 
spent some time in the study of agriculture at Starston in Norfolk. 
