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276 THE JOUKNAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. The two stout volumes from which this brief account is taken, are interesting throughout, and seem to make one really acquainted with a rare and delightful personality. One realizes his passion for plants from first to last, an inheritance from both his father and his mother's father, Dawson Turner ; and his development can be traced, from the reserved puritanical youth who shuns society and refrains from collecting plants on Sundays, to the genial host at Kew and the correspondent of Darwin, full of fun and broad modern views. A chapter by Prof. Bower summarizes admirably Sir Joseph Hooker's position as botanist. In two appendices are given a complete list of his writings, and the long roll of honours and appointments conferred upon him. The illustrations are all well chosen, and include six portraits of the botanist at different periods, and two pictures of his camp life, one in Sikkim, with his Lepcha collectors and Gurkha guard, and one in the Rockies with Asa Gray and other American friends. A welcome feature of the book is a brief biographical notice in a footnote of each notable person mentioned in the text, and there is a good index.

M. A. Evershed.

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