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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. . Fellow and Reader, Calcutta University; Dean of Faculty of Science, 1909; President of Board of Studies in Geology and Mineralogy 1905-09; President, Indian Mining and Geological Club and of Royal College of Students0146 Association, 1910; Hon. Member, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, and of the Mining and Geological Inst. of India. Publications: numerous memoirs of Petrology, Geology, and Anthropology. Address: MancheterManchester [sic]. Club: Savage.  Home, Sir Anthony Dickson, V.C, K.C.B. (1874), Surgeon-General (retired); b. 18-23; entered Army Medical Department, 1848; served in the Crimea, 1854-5; Indian Mutiny, 1857-8; served in China, 1860; New Zealand, 1863-5; Ashanti, 1873-4; P.M.O. Cyprus, 1878-9; P.O.M.P.M.O. [sic] to the Forces in India, 1881-5. Publications: Service Memoirs, 1912. Address: 7, Palen Gardens, TenanPalace Gardens Terrace [sic], Kensington, W.  Home, Frederic Jervis, C.S.I. (1892); R.E. (retired); b. Calcutta, 1839; o. surviving s. of late Maj-General Richard Home, of the Bengal Army; educ: Kensington Proprietory [sic] Grammar School, and at H.E.I.C. Military Seminary, Addiscombe; joined the Bengal Engineers, 1858, and landed in India, 1860; employed in the Irrigation Branch, of the P.W.D., 1861-94; Inspector General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary to Government of India, P.W.D,, 1890-4; retired 1895. Address: Pitcarins Dunning, Perthshire.  Holmwood Mr. Justice H., I.C.S., Judge, High Court Calcutta; educ: Uppingham; joined service, 1879; Inspector-General of Registration, 1890; District and Sessions Judge,. 1894; raised to present position, 1906. Address: Calcutta, India.  Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, G.C.S.I., C.B., O.M., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D, F.R.S; b. 1877; s. of late Sir William Jackson Hooker; educ: Glasgow; married twice; joined, R.N. Medical Department, 1839; served as Surgeon and Naturalist in H.M.S. “Erebus” in the Antarctic expedition under Sir James Ross, 1839-43; brought out a series of volumes on the botany of the Antarctic regions.; visited the Himalayas on the North of Sikhim, was badly treated, and kept a prisoner, by the Sikhim authorities; visited the Khasia hills as naturalist, and made botanical collections of great value;, 1847-51: visited Syria and Palestine, I860; Morocco, 1871; the Rocky MounttainsMountains [sic], 1877; served as Assistant Director and Director of Kew Gardens, 1865-85. Publications: Himalayan journals; The Rhododendrons of the Sikhim Himalaya; The Flora of British India, and other scientific works. Address: SunningdaliSunningdale [sic]. Club; AtheniumAthenaeum [sic].  Hooper, D. F.L.S., F.C.S., Economic Botanist to the Botannical Survey of India; is a Hanbury Medalist; retired from service, 1914; Address: c/o India Office, London.  Hope, Sir Theodore Cracraft, C.I.E. (1882), C.S.I. (1887), K.C.S.I. (1890), b, 1831; s. of late James Hope, M.D.; educ: Rugby, and Haileybury; entered I.C.S., Bombay, 1858; called to bar (Lincoln’s inn), 1806; Educational Inspector, 1855-8; Member, Imperial Legislative Council, 1875-80; Member, 189