The Botanical Illustrations ; Exotic Flora, indicating such of the specimens as are deserving cultivation, 3 vols. 1822-27 ; Account of Sab i ncs Arctic Plants, 1824 ; Catalogue of Plants in the Glasgow Satanic Garden, 1825; the Botany of Parry s Third Voyage, 1826 ; The botanical Magazine. 1827-65, 38 vols. ; Iconcs Fllicum, in concert with Dr R. K. Greville, 1829-31, 2 vols. ; British Flora, of which several editions appeared, undertaken with Dr G. A. W. Arnott, 1830, &c. ; British Flora Cryptogamia( Fungi), 1833 ; Characters of Gtncrafrom the British Flora, 1830 ; Flora B or -call- Americana, 18-10, 2 vols., being the botany of British North America collected in Sir J. Franklin s voyage ; The Journal of Botany, 1830-42, 4 vols. ; Companion to the Botanical Magazine, 1835-36, 2 vols. ; Iconcs Plantaruni, 1837-54, 10 vols. ; the Botany of Bcechey s Voyage to the Pacific and Behring s Straits (with Dr Arnott, 1841); the Genera Filicum, 1842, from the original coloured drawings of F. Bauer, with additions and descriptive letterpress ; The London Journal of Botany, 1842-48, 7 vols. ; Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of the Erebus and Terror, 1843; Species Filicum, 1846-64, 5 vols., the standard work on this subject ; A Century of Orchidccc, 1846 ; Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, 1849-57, 9 vols. In 1849 he edited the Niger Flora of Vogel, and the Rhododendrons of Sikkim, Victoria Regia, 1851 ; Museum of Economic Botany at Kcw, 1855; Filiccs Exotici, 1857-59; The British Ferns, 1861-62; A Century of Ferns, 1854; A Second Century of Ferns, 1860-61. The estimation in which he held his patron the duke of Bedford is shown in the Letter on his grace s death printed in 1840, calling attention to the services rendered by him to botany and horticulture.
It was mainly by Hooker s exertions that botanists were appointed to the Government expeditions. While his works were in progress his herbarium received large and valuable additions from all parts of the globe, and his position as a botanist was thus vastly improved. He received the honour of knighthood from William IV. in 1836 in consideration of his meritorious researches in scientific botany ; and a few years later, in 1841, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic il Gardens of Kew, on the resignation of Mr Aiton. The attainment of this post had long been the object of his life. The gardens flourished under his administration ; the Government had confidence in him ; and his numerous friends and correspondents took pride in contributing to the scientific needs of his herbarium. From small beginnings the gardens expanded under his direction to 75 acres, with an arboretum of 270 acres ; and three museums, enriched with many thousand examples of vege table products, have been added, forming together, with the magnificent palm-house and conservatories, the most delightful and beautiful resort that the inhabitants of London possess ; while his extensive library of reference and admirably arranged herbarium, the greater part of which was presented by Sir William to the country, form a constant attraction to the botanist. He was engaged on the Synopsis Filicum with J. G. Baker when an epidemic at Kew brought his valuable lifs to a close. He died August 12, 1865, in the eighty-first year of his age.
HOOLE, John (1727–1803), translator and dramatic, was born at Moorfields, London, in December 1727. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the accountants department of the East India House. His leisure hours he devoted to the study of Latin and especially Italian, after obtaining a mastery of which he commenced writing trans lations of the chief works of the Italian poets. He pub lished the Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso in 1763, the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto in 1773-1783, the Dramas of Metastasio in 1767, and Rinaldo, an early work of Tasso, in 1792. He also wrote the following dramas Cyrus (1768), Timanthes (1770), and Cleouia (1775), none of which achieved success. The verses of Hoole have been praised by Johnson, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, but, though correct, smooth, and flowing, they cannot be commended for any other merit ; and the noble poetry of Italy, transmuted through the crucible of his trans lations, becomes spiritless and commonplace. In 1773 he was promoted to be auditor of Indian accounts, which office he resigned in 1783, and in 1786 he retired to Abinger near Dorking, Surrey, where he died 2d April 1803.
See Anecdotes of the Life of John Hoolc, by the Rev. Samuel Hoole, London, 1803.
