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friends, for I am always improving myself, and it will give me a 
greater claim on the scientific world.' The unscientific officers, 
though doing their arduous work devoted^, were buoyed up 
by no scientific enthusiasms, and with no chance of withdraw- 
ing honourably from the task, felt it a hardship to be kept 
in harness so long, having only calculated on a three years' 
cruise. They were being outstripped by others on active 
service, and the promotions that came to them in the guise of 
special reward were already due for length of service, while 
the ' Terrors ' especially were nettled that when the Geo- 
graphical Society gave Captain Koss their Gold Medal, no 
word was uttered in recognition of the officers and crews by 
whose labour and loyalty he had been able to push his explora- 
tions so far. And Hooker writes home of a rumour that they 
had wintered in the lonely Falkland Islands lest at any other 
port the seamen might desert rather than face another expedi- 
tion to the ice. All were delighted when they learned at the 
Cape that they were to make their way slowly homeward by 
St. Helena, Ascension, and Kio. 
The Admiralty rule that all collections, journals, and charts 
made on the voyage should be handed over to the Department, 
and Eoss's keen desire that his account of the voyage should 
not be forestalled by any public leakage of news, geographical 
or scientific, hedged private letters round with difficulties. 
It was expected that finally both Hooker's Journals and his 
botanical collections would come back to him. Before leaving 
England he had written to thank his grandfather, Dawson 
Turner, for offering to help in getting his Journals ready for 
the press when he returned, and added, * My Journal will be, 
I hope, very full if not very good, and I shall send home extracts 
to all my friends in the shape of letters to my father and grand- 
father. These Journals on my return are to be given up to the 
Admiralty, who will, I hope, send them to my Father, since 
Capt. Eoss has promised that he will use his endeavours 
that the Botanical collections shall be sent to him.' Meantime 
Hooker had urged his parents to keep his letters strictly within 
the family circle. Even the sending home of an occasional 
sketch to illustrate his travels, or of a pretty shell for his 
