xx iv Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
et je logais quelques jours avec lui. Sa femme, qui etait aussi 
distinguee par la figure et par 1’ esprit, me re 9 ut egalement 
d’une maniere tres amicale. Nous passions nos journees 
ensemble a causer, surtout de botanique, a voir son herbier et 
les plantes qu’il cultivait dans son petit jardin. J’y fis con- 
naissance avec Lindley, alors jeune eleve de Hooker, et qui 
depuis est Tun des premiers botanistes de 1’Angleterre. 
Madame Hooker est fille de M. Dawson Turner, botaniste, 
connu par un bel ouvrage sur les Fucus. Elle m’engagea 
a aller a Yarmouth voir son pere, et je fus, en effet, re 9 u avec 
la plus franche hospitalite. Madame Turner etait une mere 
de famille tres distinguee et elle dessinait assez bien et gravait 
a l’eau forte. Mon portrait a ete grave par elle/ 
As alluded to by M. de Candolle, Lindley, then a youth 
of eighteen, was at the same time with himself a guest of 
my father. He was the son of a well-known nurseryman of 
Catton, near Norwich, and had shown such zeal and ability 
as a local botanist that with a view of encouraging him in its 
pursuit he was invited to Halesworth 1 , and to occupy himself 
there with translating Richard’s ‘ Analyse des Fruits.’ This 
he did, introducing the author’s latest corrections, and illus- 
trating his translation with plates and original observations 2 . 
In the following year my father took Lindley to Sir Joseph 
Banks, who offered him temporary employment in his her- 
barium, and introduced him to Mr. Cattley, a wealthy merchant 
devoted to horticulture, who was desirous of having his rare 
plants handsomely illustrated 3 ; and this again led eventually 
to the assistant secretaryship of the Horticultural Society of 
1 On this occasion Lindley was looking forward to employment as a botanical 
collector abroad, which led to an amusing incident. The housekeeper at Hales- 
worth finding that his bed was never occupied, after a vain search for a reason, 
reported the fact. His distressed host had to ask for an explanation, which was 
simply that his guest was inuring himself to the hardships of a collector’s calling 
by sleeping on hard boards! Dr. Lindley died in 1865, three months after my 
father. 
2 Published in London, under the title of Observations on the Structure of Fruits 
and Seeds, in 1819, pp. 100, and six plates ; dedicated to W. J. Hooker. 
3 The result was the publication of the Collectanea Botanica, a folio with 
forty-one coloured plates. London, 1821. 
