EECOGNITION FOE HIS FATHEB 419 
To the Bev. M. J. Berkeley 
1858. 
I do not know whether I ever told you that there has 
been for years a hitch about electing my Father into the 
Academy at Paris, a matter now regularly jobbed. They 
have long felt that they ought to do so, but time has crept 
on and they have only cared to toady their own people. 
As it is, Wallich's place is not yet filled up ! ! because one 
party want my Father, another me, and a third (God help 
the mark) Parlatore ! ! ! ^ I have written privately to 
Decaisne (who is most honorable) to tell him that I must 
not be thought of by any one, for that it would be both an 
injustice and personal grievance to put me before my Father. 
I could not of course allude to the matter myself to any 
one but Decaisne (whom I knew from Brown and personal 
knowledge that I could trust), but it may be possible for 
you if you have occasion to write to Montagne to hint to 
him how astonished people are that my Father's claims are 
overlooked so long by the French Botanists. They are 
very welcome to stultify themselves by putting Parlatore 
before Bentham, Thomson, yourself, Harvey and half a 
dozen other men I could mention without including myself, 
but I cannot stomach this treatment of my Father. Please 
keep this matter private, and 
Believe me, 
Ever affectionately yours, 
Jos. D. Hooker. 
To Dr. Anderson 
July 2, 1860. 
Excuse my mentioning that any allusion to my Father 
in acknowledging your obligation to the Kew Herbarium 
(in Aden Florula) would gratify him very much. It is 
sometimes forgotten that he is its author and owner, 
and I know he has on such occasions felt hurt at the 
omission. 
1 Filippo Parlatore (1816-77) was born at Palermo ; Director of the Royal 
Museum of Natural History at I'lorence and Professor of Botany. He is best 
known in England for his monograph on conifers and his unfinished Flora 
Italiana. He was President of the Royal Tuscan Horticultural Society and of 
the Botanical Congress in Florence, 1874. 
