xx:xvi Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
the best known to me is that which prefaces this article. 
Other portraits of him are two life-size in oil by Thomas 
Phillips, R.A., one in my possession, and the other in that of 
Sir Leonard Lyell, Bart., of Kinnordy ; the half-length in 
oil by Gambardella, in the Linnean Society’s meeting room ; 
a small engraving in the series of portraits of members of the 
Athenaeum Club 1 ; one by Maguire in the Ipswich series of 
portraits of scientific men ; and an etching in profile by 
Mrs. Dawson Turner, from a profile by Cotman, unpublished, 
but widely distributed. There is also the bust in marble by 
Woolner in the Kew Museum, an excellent likeness. 
His general health was excellent, but he suffered from 
deafness, and sometimes serious trouble in one ear, brought 
on by an attack of scarlet fever in Glasgow, when also his 
throat was severely cauterized, an operation which left that 
organ very susceptible to cold. His habits were of the 
simplest ; he was at work by eight a.m., and again till near 
midnight. Under medical advice he dined for the last twenty 
years in the middle of the day, and took a light supper at 
seven or eight. Afternoon teas were unknown in those days. 
It rarely happened that the midday dinner was not also the 
lunch of some expected or unexpected guest or guests. His 
absence from London society, and especially from meetings 
of the Royal, Linnean, and Antiquarian Societies, of all which 
he had been a member for fifty years, was greatly regretted. 
But these were held at night, at a distance of seven miles from 
his dwelling-house, and for the ten years of his West Park 
life an omnibus that passed quite half a mile off was the 
only public conveyance from Kew to the metropolis. 
He was a Fellow of the Royal, Linnean, Antiquarian, and 
Royal Geographical Societies, LL.D. of Glasgow, D.C.L. of 
Oxford, a Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences 
of France, Companion of the Legion of Honour, and 
member of almost every Academy in Europe and America 
which cultivated the Natural Sciences. In 1836 he received 
the honour of knighthood from His Majesty William IV, 
1 Of which I find no copy in the Club. 
