xx ii Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
nothing but Portuguese was spoken, and on landing sent to 
a school at Cork where French alone was heard. It was thus 
comparatively late in life that he acquired English, and this 
with an Irish accent. 
Early in 1814 my father accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Turner 
and family on a visit to Paris, then in the occupation of the 
Allies. There, at ‘ The Institute/ he made the acquaintance 
of the principal botanists resident in, or on visits to the 
city — Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Desfontaines, Lamarck, 
Mirbel, Bory de St. Vincent \ Thouin, and others. Leaving 
the party in Paris he spent the remainder of the year 
botanizing and seeing botanists, sketching and sight-seeing in 
the south of France, spending some days with de Candolle at 
Montpellier, and in Piedmont, Switzerland, and Lombardy. 
Returning to Paris early in 1815 he was introduced to Hum- 
boldt, who engaged him to publish a cryptogamic volume 
of his ‘ Plantae Equinoctiales.’ This intention had to be 
abandoned owing to the publisher’s refusal to continue that 
work. After much subsequent correspondence with Humboldt, 
that led to nothing, my father commenced the publication on 
his own account, and produced in 1816 the first part of a work 
entitled * Plantae Cryptogamicae, quae in plaga orbis novi 
Aequinoctialis colligerunt Alex r . von Humboldt et Aimat 
Bonpland.’ It is a very thin quarto with four plates of species 
drawn by the author, and exquisitely etched by Edwards. The 
expense was great and the return nil ; the work was therefore 
abandoned, and of the remaining Musci and Hepaticae many 
were included in the author’s less expensive 4 Musci Exotici.’ 
On June 12, 1815, my father married Maria Sarah, eldest 
daughter of Dawson Turner, and immediately started on 
a long wedding tour to the Lake District and to Ireland, 
which latter country the pair traversed in almost every 
direction, making sketches of scenery and ancient buildings ; 
thence they went to Scotland on a visit to Mr. Lyell 2 at 
1 Of the above, only two were alive to welcome me when I visited Paris in 
1845 ; Mirbel died in 1854, Bory in 1846. 
2 Father of Sir Charles Lyell, translator of Dante. I have been unable to 
