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.
The 1918 standard biography of the eminent botanist, explorer and supporter of Charles Darwin.
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