This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...to the Himalayas, resulting in his Himalayan Journal (1864) and the lthoUnlendrom of the Sikkirn Himalaya. (1849-51). With Or Thomson he undertook a Flora Indian (vol, i. 1855), and himself published a flora of British India (1874). In 1871 he visited Morocco, and ascended the Great Atlas; in 1877 he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...to the Himalayas, resulting in his Himalayan Journal (1864) and the lthoUnlendrom of the Sikkirn Himalaya. (1849-51). With Or Thomson he undertook a Flora Indian (vol, i. 1855), and himself published a flora of British India (1874). In 1871 he visited Morocco, and ascended the Great Atlas; in 1877 he accompanied l)r Asa Gray through Colorado, Utah, and Califoruia. He became assistantdirector at Kew in 1855, and on his father's death director. He was made C.B. (1809) and K.C.S.I, (1877), and is LL.D. and D.C.L. His best-known work is his Students' Flora of the British Islands (1870); his most important are the Genera Plantarum (with Bentham, 1862-83) and Index Kewensis (with Jackson, 1893 et seq.). Hoole, John (1727-1803), translator and dramatist, born at Moorfields, London, from 1744 to 1783 was employed in the East India House. He published translations of the Jerusalem Delivered (1703) and Rinaldo (1792) of Tasso, the dramas of Metastasio (1767), and the Orlando Evriaso of Ariosto (1773-83). Scott describes the translator of the Ariosto as 'a noble transmitter of gold into lead.' His dramas Cyrus (1768), Timanthes (1770), and Cleonice. (1775) were failures. See A negates of the Life of John Hook (1803). Hooper. Georgk (1640-1727), born at Grimley, Worcestershire, and educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, became Dean of Canterbury (1691), Bishop of St Asaph (1701), of Bath and Wells (1703), and died at Barkley, Prome. Hooper, John, bishop ami martyr, born in Somerset about 1495, was educated at Oxford, whence in 151S he passed to a Cistercian monastery at Gloucester. The reading of Zwingli made him a Reformer. He went in 1539 for safety's sake to the Continent, married in 1546, and settled at Zurich. After his return in...
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