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Rh worth, Suffolk, he continued to increase his herbarium, which became the resort and admiration of British and Continental botanists. In 1816 appeared the British JungermannUe, his first scientific work, which is even now a model of microscopic dissection and of accurate description and figuring. This was succeeded by a new edition of Curtis s Flora Londinensis, for which he wrote the descriptions (1817-28); by a description of the Plants Cryptofjamicce of A. de Humboldt and A. Bonpland; by the Muscoloyia Britannica, a very complete account of the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, preparsd in conjunction with Dr T. Taylor (1818) ; and by his Musd Exotid, 2 vols. (1818-20), devoted to new foreign mosses and other cryptogamic plants. In 1820 he accepted the regius professorship of botany in Glasgow university, and entered upon a new career of activity, in which he soon became popular as a lecturer, his style being both clear and ready. The following year he brought out the Flora Scotica, in which the natural method of arrangement of British plants was given with the artificial. During the twenty years he remained at Glasgow he prepared and took part in many works, the more important being the following:—

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It was mainly by Hooker s exertions that botanists were appointed to the Government expeditions. While his works were in progress his herbarium received large and valuable additions from all parts of the globe, and his position as a botanist was thus vastly improved. He received the honour of knighthood from William IV. in 1836 in consideration of his meritorious researches in scientific botany ; and a few years later, in 1841, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic il Gardens of Kew, on the resignation of Mr Aiton. The attainment of this post had long been the object of his life. The gardens flourished under his administration ; the Government had confidence in him ; and his numerous friends and correspondents took pride in contributing to the scientific needs of his herbarium. From small beginnings the gardens expanded under his direction to 75 acres, with an arboretum of 270 acres ; and three museums, enriched with many thousand examples of vege table products, have been added, forming together, with the magnificent palm-house and conservatories, the most delightful and beautiful resort that the inhabitants of London possess ; while his extensive library of reference and admirably arranged herbarium, the greater part of which was presented by Sir William to the country, form a constant attraction to the botanist. He was engaged on the Synopsis Filicum with J. G. Baker when an epidemic at Kew brought his valuable lifs to a close. He died August 12, 1865, in the eighty-first year of his age.  HOOLE, (1727–1803), translator and dramatic, was born at Moorfields, London, in December 1727. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the accountants department of the East India House. His leisure hours he devoted to the study of Latin and especially Italian, after obtaining a mastery of which he commenced writing trans lations of the chief works of the Italian poets. He pub lished the Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso in 1763, the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto in 1773-1783, the Dramas of Metastasio in 1767, and Rinaldo, an early work of Tasso, in 1792. He also wrote the following dramas Cyrus (1768), Timanthes (1770), and Cleouia (1775), none of which achieved success. The verses of Hoole have been praised by Johnson, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, but, though correct, smooth, and flowing, they cannot be commended for any other merit ; and the noble poetry of Italy, transmuted through the crucible of his trans lations, becomes spiritless and commonplace. In 1773 he was promoted to be auditor of Indian accounts, which office he resigned in 1783, and in 1786 he retired to Abinger near Dorking, Surrey, where he died 2d April 1803.

1em  HOOPER, (c.–), bishop and martyr, was a native of Somersetshire, and was born about. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and after taking his degree of bachelor of arts in joined the order of Cistercian monks at Gloucester. Subsequently, &quot; while living too much of a court life in the palace of the king,&quot; his attention was directed to the writings of Zwingli, and the result of his perusing them was that after a diligent study of the Scriptures he became a zealous advocate of the principles of the Reformation. For a short time he was chaplain to Sir Thomas Arundel, but, being warned of the danger to which his opinions exposed him, he in made his escape to France. Returning to England shortly after wards, he found that plots were again being laid for his life, and escaped to Ireland disguised as a sailor. From Ireland he again went to France, passing thence to Germany, where he married, probably in. After his marriage he settled in Zurich till March, when he set out for England. Immediately on arriving in London he began to apply himself to the work of instructing the masses, and so successful were his labours that the churches in which he lectured were crowded by eager audiences, and that the king specially requested him to remain in London to further the progress of the Reformation. In he was pre sented to the bishopric of Gloucester ; but, refusing it on account of objections to the oath and vestments, he was summoned before the council, and ultimately was imprisoned for some time in the Fleet, till he intimated that his scruples had been removed. The duties of his episcopate he dis charged with a diligence, zeal, and self-sacrifice that have been rarely equalled. He preached three or four times a in the towns and villages of his diocese, and so regard less was he of fatigue that his wife wrote Bullinger to &quot;recommend Master Hooper to be more moderate in his labour,&quot; lest his &quot; overabundant exertions should cause a premature decay; &quot; he made minute inquiry into the know ledge, doctrine, conduct, and worldly condition of his clergy, whose impoverished livings he petitioned the council to be allowed to augment out of his own income ; and he supplied a free dinner in his hall to the poor of the city daily, sitting down and sharing it with them. In he was created bishop of Worcester in commendam. On the acces sion of Mary in the he was immediately arrested and sent to the Fleet, and after suffering eighteen 