xxx Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
hands of the whole class for this purpose. Throughout the 
course my father’s artistic powers were exercised with chalk 
and the blackboard ; and he gradually accumulated a mag- 
nificent series of folio coloured drawings, especially of medicinal 
plants, which were suspended in the class-room as occasion 
required. I well remember the murmur, and even louder 
expression of applause with which he was greeted on taking 
the Chair, when the number or interest of these pictures was 
conspicuous. Before his second year’s class had assembled 
he had published the ‘ Flora Scotica * for its use, and an 
oblong folio of lithographed illustrations of the organs of 
plants by his own pencil, with twenty-four plates and 327 
figures, a copy of which was placed before every two students h 
During the course three botanizing excursions were taken, 
two in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, and one towards the 
end of June, of five or six days’ duration, to the Western High- 
lands, usually to the Breadalbane range. This latter was 
eagerly anticipated by a contingent of ten to thirty students, 
amongst whom were frequent accessions of botanists from 
Edinburgh and England. Further to stimulate their zeal, 
he habitually invited the more industrious students to break- 
fast with him after the class (which was from 8 to 9 a.m.), when 
he would show them books, and give them from his store of 
duplicates, specimens of rare British plants. To conclude 
this episode of his life, it must be recorded, that his success as 
a lecturer was phenomenal ; his tall figure, commanding pre- 
sence, flexible features, good voice, eloquent delivery, and 
urbane manners are vouched for in every obituary notice 
of him. His lectures were often attended by gentlemen of 
the city, and even by officers from the barracks three miles 
distant. The students of his first year’s course presented 
him with a handsome silver vasculum, chased with a design 
taken from the moss, Hookeria lucens 3 and those of the second 
year with a richly bound copy in ten volumes of Scott’s 
Poetical Works. 
1 A second series in quarto with twenty-six plates, comprising 395 illustrations, 
by Fitch, for class use, was published in 1837. 
