CHAPTEK XVIII 
THE RETURN FROM INDIA 
The end of the Indian journey brought up the same problem 
as had arisen at the end of the Antarctic journey. What was 
the next step to be, and what arrangements could be made 
for the publication of the scientific results by the Government 
who had sent out the expedition ? Government help, he 
held, might be given to working out research, but not to the 
endowment of researchers as such. As he puts it to his mother 
(August 8, 1849) : 
Mr. S. is very clever, but one wants hard-headed, working 
men now-a-days, and Government pay should be doled out 
according to the amount of national profit, pleasure or 
advantage yielded by the science to the Pubhc in general, 
and not to physiologists in particular, or philosophers. You 
need not apply this to me. I offer no excuse for myself 
and court no favour. 
Hooker had always thought it proper to complete in India, 
apart from the voyage out or home, the three years for which 
his grants were allowed. That the last year was to be spent 
in India instead of in Borneo was in every respect good for 
him save as regards finance. If he was left to pay for his 
passage home the arrangement did not err on the side of 
hberality. He still received £300 from the Woods and Forests 
instead of the £400 for the two preceding years, but lost his 
full naval pay (£200), time of service and naval allowances, 
together with the free passage home which, under the Borneo 
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