[114] Bentham, Illustrations of the British Flora, 5th ed., 1901, p. 68.
[115a] Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., by Leonard Huxley, 2 vols. John Murray, 1918.
[115b] The only obvious exception seems to be that too much space has been given to Sir Joseph’s letters to Mr La Touche, inasmuch as they are not especially interesting. It is not clear why Sir Joseph corresponded so much with Mr La Touche. Can it be that he wished to placate him as being his son’s schoolmaster?
[116] i., p. 5.
[122a] Hooker’s son Brian was named after him.
[122b] Hooker’s Himalayan Journals was published in 1854, and dedicated to Charles Darwin by “his affectionate friend.”
[123] As a further instance of the treatment Hooker received from the Indian authorities, I cannot resist quoting from vol. ii., p. 145: “The Court of Directors snubbed him before he set out, refusing him assistance and official letters of introduction to India, and even a passage out. . . . It was Hooker who surveyed and mapped the whole province of Sikkim, and opened up the resources of Darjiling at the cost of captivity . . . and the consequent loss of all his instruments and part of his notes and collections. Yet the India Board actually sold on Government behalf the presents the Rajah made him after his release,” though they owed to his energy the Government sites of the tea and cinchona cultivation.
[124] “On the Reception of the Origin of Species,” Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ii., p. 197.
[125] Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ii., p. 241.
[127a] More Letters, i., p. 117.