xii Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
Yarmouth, author of ‘ Muscologiae Hibernicae Spicilegium,’ 
and, with L. W. Dillwyn, F.L.S., of ‘The Botanist’s Guide 
through England and Wales.’ This he did, and it was im- 
mediately followed by an invitation from Mr. Turner to visit 
him, which led to the colouring of his future life. 
In 1806, when only four months over his majority, my 
father was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, probably 
the youngest individual so honoured. In the same year he 
visited London, and was introduced to Sir J oseph Banks, 
Konig, Brown, and other naturalists. The years 1806-9 
were passed between Norwich, Yarmouth, and London, 
with intervals of travelling in Scotland and Iceland. In 
London he had rooms in Frith Street, Soho, to be near 
the British Museum, Linnean Society’s rooms, his friends, 
R. Brown, Leach, Konig, Edward Foster, Macleay, and above 
all the Banksian library and collections, and Sir Joseph 
Banks himself, who treated him with great kindness, stimu- 
lating his zeal as a naturalist and his desire to travel. At 
Yarmouth, where he was a frequent guest for protracted 
periods, he devoted himself mainly to aiding Mr. Turner in 
his great work, the ‘ Historia Fucorum Y °f which aid the 
latter makes frequent grateful mention in his correspondence 
with Mr. Borrer. During the same period he was occupied 
with preparing his ‘ British Jungermanniae ’ for publica- 
tion 2 , and in studying Buchanan-Hamilton’s Nepal mosses in 
Sir James Smith’s herbarium, upon some of which he wrote 
his first published paper. It is entitled ‘ Musci Nepalenses,’ 
and was read before the Linnean Society in June, 1807 
(Linn. Trans., ix. 1807, pp. 26-8, with three plates). 
In 1807, when botanizing in the neighbourhood of Yar- 
mouth, he was bitten by a viper. Fancying he had been pricked 
by a thorn he paid no heed to the pain till giddiness came on, 
1 Of the 258 coloured plates of this work, 231 are inscribed 4 W. J. H.,.Esq r . delt.’ 
in minute letters ; 12 signed ‘ M. T.,’ or 1 D na T.,’ are by Mrs. Turner ; 7 by 
Miss Hutchins, of Bantry ; 2 by Professor Martens, of Bremen, and 1 by 
Sir Thomas Frankland. 
2 Writing to Mr. Turner in 1808 he mentions that Dr. Smith had lent him the 
whole Linnean collection of Jungermanniae for study, together with his own. 
