president’s address. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Turner, and in 1807 Turner and Hooker 
met N. J. Winch at the English Lakes. 
At the age of 21 Hooker was admitted to the Linnean 
Society, and in 1808 Dr. Smith dedicated to him the new 
Genus Hookeria. William Hooker contributed largely to 
Sowerby’s “ English Botany.” 
The mother of W. J. Hooker was a daughter of James 
Vincent, of Norwich, a worsted manufacturer, grandfather of 
George Vincent, 1 one of the most talented of the Norwich 
painters, whose portrait by Clover hangs in the picture gallery 
at Norwich Castle. 2 ' In the illustrations made from William 
Hooker’s drawings, we see the genius of the Norwich School 
of Painters applied to scientific rather than to pictorial work. 
Nothing can be finer than Hooker’s illustrations for Dawson 
Turner’s “Fuci” (1808-19), and the drawings for his own 
“British Jungermanniae,” begun in 1806. In 1808 Dr. Smith 
lent him his specimens and the whole Linnean collection of 
Jungermannice for study. The first number of “ British 
Jungermanniae ” was published in May, 1812, though No. 22 
was not printed till 1816. The price of the whole work was 
£S 9s. 6d., and besides the quarto edition a few copies of folio 
size were issued. ' 2 The book was printed by Keymer, of 
Yarmouth, and dedicated to Mr. Dawson Turner, whose eldest 
daughter he married in 1815, when he finally left Norfolk and 
settled at Halesworth in Suffolk. 
Referring to Great Yarmouth, James Paget tells us that 
previous to 1834, “ probably no neighbourhood has been so 
completely investigated as this, which has had the good fortune 
to have been for nearly a century the constant stage for the 
action of some enquiring mind. Long ago Dr. Sims, Dr. Aikin, 
and Joseph Sparshall were engaged in the observation of our 
plants by the feeble light which the science then, comparatively 
speaking, in its infancy, afforded them.” 21 Joseph Sparshall 
was a grocer, and in 1767 he had a shop at the corner of one 
of the Rows facing the Market Place. 22 
John Aikin, M.D. (1747-1822) was the youngest child and 
only son of the Rev. John Aikin, D.D., a Dissenting minister at 
