xl Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
of Botany in Edinburgh University in 1845; my mission to 
India in 1847 ; and my appointment as Assistant Director 
of Kew in 1855. Add to these benefits, the legacy of his 
herbarium and library, and the truth of the saying ‘ one 
sovveth, another reapeth * forcibly applies. 
The works published by my father when in Glasgow are 
very numerous. A complete list of them, with details regard- 
ing the more important, will be given at the end of this 
sketch. They may be grouped under four headings — British 
Botany, American Botany, Miscellaneous Works, and Serials. 
In the British Botany there was the ‘ Flora Scotica,’ the 
new edition of Curtis’s c Flora Londinensis,’ four editions of 
the ‘ British Flora,’ and many contributions to a knowledge 
of British plants in the volumes of his botanical Journals. 
The more important works on American Botany were the 
‘ Flora Boreali-Americana ’ ; Botanical Appendices to the 
Narratives of Sir E. Parry’s three last voyages to the Polar 
Seas. There were also, in his botanical Journals, descriptions 
of T. Drummond’s and of Geyers’ United States and Oregon 
plants, and articles on the botany of Peru and Chili ; and, in 
conjunction with Arnott, the £ Flora of South America and the 
Pacific Islands.’ Also many American plants are described 
in the ‘ Botany of Beechey’s Voyage ’ by himself and 
Dr. Arnott, and in his ‘ leones Plantarum.’ 
Under Miscellaneous Works may be classed as most impor- 
tant Greville’s and Hooker’s ‘ leones Filicum,’ and the 
commencement of an ‘ Enumeration of all known Filices 
and Lycopodiaceae ’ by the same authors in the ‘ Botanical 
Miscellany’; the ‘Botany of Captain Beechey’s Voyage to 
Behring’s Sea, the Pacific Ocean, and China ’ by himself and 
Arnott ; the third edition of Woodville’s ‘ Medical Botany ’ ; 
the botanical articles in Murray’s ‘ Encyclopedia of Geo- 
graphy,’ and the first three volumes of the ‘ leones Plantarum,’ 
or figures and descriptions of new or rare and otherwise 
interesting plants contained in his herbarium, with 300 plates 
by W. Fitch 1 . 
1 Walter Fitch, F.L.S., who by his artistic talents contributed so largely to 
