Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
1. Early days
2. The Antarctic voyage: preliminaries
3. The southern journey and its scientific scope
4. The voyage of the Erebus and Terror: passing impressions
5. Tasmania and the Antarctic
6. South again: New Zealand and the Cape
7. The Antarctic voyage: personal
8. Return to England: and visit to Paris
9. Edinburgh
10. The Geological Survey
11. The voyage to India
12. Journey to the Kymore Hills
13. To Darjiling: the first Himalayan journey
14. The second Himalayan journey
15. Captivity and release
16. Last days in Sikkim
17. To the Khasia Mountains
18. The return from India
19. Botany: its position and prospects in the fifties
20. Science teaching: examinations
21. Science organisation: societies, journals, and rewards
22. Miscellaneous, 1850–60
23. Letters to Darwin, 1843–59
24. On species
25. The making of the 'Origin': science and friendship
26. Publication of the 'Origin' and the 'Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora'
27. The journey to Palestine and the work of 1860. Volume 2:
28. Economic botany and the new floras
29. Scientific work, 1860–5
30. 1860–5: personal
31. Kew, St. Petersburg, and Marocco
32. Darwinian interests
33. The presidency of the Royal Society
34. The presidency (continued)
35. The Ayrton episode
36. Life and friendship at Kew
37. Loss and gain
38. America: and geographical distribution
39. End of the presidential term (1877–8)
40. Kew:
1879–85
41. Retirement, to 1897: botanical work
42. Retirement, to 1897: Darwiniana and other scientific interests
43. Retirement, to 1897: of books and opinions
44. Miscellaneous letters:
1886–97
45. The 'Lion' letters
46. Final botanical work
47. Further problems of economic botany
48. Hooker's position as botanist F. O. Bower
49. Personalia:
1898–1906
50. The last years
Appendices
Index.