170 EETUEN TO ENGLAND : AND VISIT TO PABIS 
It is already October when he reports to Dr. Harvey, who 
had earher shared in some of the sorting, a quasi-final descent 
upon the * Augean stables ' of the Indian and Australian 
collections,— * stable occupation,' as he calls it next spring 
when picking out duplicates for his Paris friends, in continuation 
of the same familiar jest, for in default of proper accommodation 
these things were housed above the stable at West Park,^ where 
' Elizabeth's pony makes Jenkins sweetly damp ' (i.e. Colonel 
Jenkins' Assam collection), and their favourite * little Catty ! 
Catty ! Meaw ! ' sometimes ' kicked dreadful bobbery among 
the things,' until, pleasant reminder though she was of Harvey's 
visit, she was convicted of * eating hens and chickens without 
salt, wherefore she is to be expelled the domains. Will you 
have your old darling ? ' 
By March 1844 the official wheels had revolved, and the 
sum of £1000 was promised for publishing the Botany of the 
Antarctic voyage. This money was to be spent upon making 
500 plates of illustrations, ' which there are ample materials 
for in the Floras of V. D. Land, N. Zealand, Fuegia, and other 
Antarctic Latitudes.' For his support whilst he was working 
at the book. Sir William would have liked him to contirme 
receiving the double pay of £250 a year which had been allowed 
on the expedition ; Joseph himself, who did not even wish 
to be passed for full surgeon and draw the higher pay attached 
to a rank in which he never meant to serve, was content to 
ask for the ordinary pay of assistant sm'geon, £118. This 
was more than granted, with an appointment to one of the 
Queen's yachts, without duty ; the pay was about £136, 10s., 
without living allowance. Through Lord Minto, however, 
who was warmly interested as having been First Lord of the 
Admiralty when the Expedition was sent out. Sir William urged 
the precedent of the allowance to Eobert Brown ; there were 
further precedents in the case of Naval sm'veyors who received 
a small allowance for living on shore while they worked out 
their results. Thus the pay finally allowed was raised to 
£200 a year. 
1 West Park ^vas Sir William Hooker's house, until in 1852 he was given 
an official residence in the Gardens. 
