xxxiv Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
botany from my childhood, much of my spare school and 
college time was devoted to the Herbarium. 
In 1820 there were few botanists in Scotland to welcome 
the newly-appointed Professor, and of these only two were 
known to him personally, his old friend Mr. Charles Lyell 1 , 
of Kinnordy, in Forfarshire, who had, however, abandoned 
the study of Hepaticae for that of Dante ; and the Rev. Dr. 
Stuart, of Luss, with whom he had botanized during two of 
his Highland tours (see p. xiii). Others were Dr. Robert 
Graham, his predecessor in the Glasgow Chair, then holding 
that of Edinburgh ; with him there was maintained a close 
correspondence till his death in 1845, chiefly concerning 
plants flowering in the Edinburgh Botanical Garden, many 
of which were figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ ; Dr. R. K. 
Greville, LL.D., of Edinburgh, with whom he had corre- 
sponded when in Suffolk on the structure of Buxbaumia 
aphylla , and with whom, as associate, he published the 
‘ leones Filicum ’ and many papers on mosses and ferns ; 
he died the year after my father, in 1866 ; Dr. Hopkirk, 
LLP., F.L.S., of Glasgow, author of the ‘Flora Glottiana* 
and 4 Flora Anomoia,’ who had taken the leading part in the 
formation of the Glasgow Botanical Garden ; Captain Dugald 
Carmichael, F.L.S., of Appin, Argyleshire, who had been 
a brother medical officer with Robert Brown in a fencible 
regiment stationed in Ireland ; and Dr. F. Buchanan-Hamil- 
ton, F.R.S., F.L.S. 2 , of the Indian Medical Service, who after 
a long and active career in India, including for a short period 
the superintendence of the Botanical Garden of Calcutta, had 
succeeded to an estate near Callender, where he died in 1829. 
These had all been correspondents except the now-forgotten 
1 Mr. Lyell died in 1849; retaining to the last his interest in botany, corre- 
sponding with my father on his publications, and responding liberally to the calls 
for aid and counsel from struggling botanical workers, and their widows and 
families. 
2 Author of ‘ An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal,’ of ‘ A Journey from Madras 
through Mysore, Canara, Malabar, &c.,’ and ‘A Commentary on Rheede’s Hortus 
Malabaricus’ (Trans. Linn. Soc., vols. xiii, xv, xvi). He was the earliest 
explorer of the Flora of Nepal, and, after Rheede (in 1670), of Malabar. His very 
large collections were distributed by Wallich. 
