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judicious purchases, the contributions of his former pupils, 
especially from abroad, to his methodical habits, and to the 
welcome he gave to all botanists who desired to consult his 
collections. For the operation of mounting specimens, &c., he 
employed aids, of whom I remember two ; the first, in about 
1827 , 1 think, was a native of Dundee, a keen algologist, James 
Chalmers by name, who prepared fasciculi of named Algae, in 
quarto form \ in the disposal of which my father aided him. 
The other was Dr. J. Klotzsch, who spent some years as 
curator of the herbarium. Klotzsch was an excellent 
fellow, a devoted mycologist, and whilst at Glasgow would 
study no other branch of botany than fungi. During the 
summer and autumn months he frequently rose at 4 a.m. 
and made a long excursion collecting in the environs of the 
city. On these occasions his appearance excited great 
curiosity ; he was short and stout, wore a green doublet and 
German peaked cap, his long hair flowed over his shoulders, 
a huge tin vasculum was strapped to his back, he carried 
a stout staff with a pickaxe head, and his English was very 
German. Meeting the rough factory hands and miners on 
their way to work he was often hustled and even assailed, 
when he defended himself with this weapon, and, being quick 
of temper, on one occasion felled with it a too rash tormentor. 
Klotzsch was the founder of the mycologic portion of the 
herbarium. Returning to Berlin, he took up the study of 
flowering plants, acquired distinction as a botanist, and became 
eventually Keeper of the Royal Herbarium, Berlin. The 
only other aids my father had in Glasgow were my mother, 
as amanuensis, and myself; for having been attracted to 
of travellers, this herbarium is rendered unusually rich in the botany of this 
country; while Drummond’s Texan collections, and many contributions from 
Dr. Nuttall and others, very fully represent the flora of our southern and western 
confines. That these valuable materials have not been buried, or suffered to 
accumulate to no purpose or advantage to science, the pages of the Flora Boreali- 
Americana, the Botanical Magazine, the Botanical Miscellany, the Journal 
of Botany, the leones Plantarum, and other works of this industrious botanist, 
abundantly testify ; and no single herbarium will afford the student of North 
American botany such extensive aid as that of Sir William Hooker.’ 
1 Algae Scoticae. See Hook. Journ. Bot., i. 158. 
