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Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
entered the sacred city of Lhassa. What is more remarkable 
is, that his journal was lost to geographers till Sir Clements 
Markham happily found it in the possession of a cousin 
of his own in Norfolk. See ‘Narratives of the Mission of 
G. Bogle to Thibet and of the Journey of T. Manning to 
Lhassa,’ ed. 2, 1879, by Sir C. Markham, a book full of 
curious information. 
In 1818 my father had the pleasure of receiving at Hales- 
worth Robert Brown, Dr. Burchell 1 , Mr. Lyell of Kinnordy, 
and Dr. Boott 2 of Boston, Mass. The first volume of the 
‘Musci Exotici ’ appeared in this year, the second in 1820, 
in both octavo and quarto forms. One of the objects of the 
work was to illustrate Humboldt’s and Bonpland’s discoveries, 
of which thirty-five are figured ; but the collections of Menzies 
during Captain Vancouver’s voyage (1790-5), in New Zealand 
and North-West America especially, more than doubled that 
number. Other important contributions came from Burchell’s 
Cape travels, Buchanan-Hamilton’s Nepalese, and Brown’s 
Australian. Altogether 176 species are figured, etched by 
Edwards, from coloured drawings by the author. 
My father’s Halesworth life was now drawing to a close: 
the brewery business, as might have been expected under 
the management of an enthusiastic naturalist and author, had 
proved unsatisfactory, and some of his investments were dis- 
appointing. Personally his menage was entirely inexpensive 
1 Dr. W. Burchell, D.C.L., F.L.S., was a great traveller. Embarking in 1804 
on a voyage to the Cape for botanical purposes chiefly, he spent five years en route 
in St. Helena, then five in South Africa, penetrating into the Transvaal before the 
immigration of the Boers. He then went to Brazil and travelled for four years in 
the interior. On both journeys he made enormous collections of plants, estimated 
at 1 5,000 species, and many views of scenery, for he was a beautiful artist. But 
except two quarto volumes of travels in Africa and descriptions of three new 
African animals, he published nothing, and he shut himself up in his museum at 
Fulham, where I visited him about i860. On his death in 1863 his herbarium 
was presented by his sister to the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
2 Dr. Boott, M.D., F.L.S., secretary and treasurer of the Linnean Society, 
resided in London and devoted his life to the illustration of the genus Carex, upon 
which he published four folio volumes with plates. He died in 1863. His 
collections and all the drawings he had made of the genus were presented to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, by his widow. 
