1. The Camp, Hooker’s country, and later retirement home.
1a. Otto Stapf (1857--1933). Austrian botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He published the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. Stapf moved to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920 and became British citizen in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1927. In 1908 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
2. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844--1930). German botanist, notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The Natural Plant Families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. His system of plant classification, the Engler system, is still used by many herbaria and is followed by writers of many manuals and floras. It is still the only system that treats all 'plants' (in the wider sense, algae to flowering plants) in such depth. Engler published a prodigious number of taxonomic works.
3. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie. Available online: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/60#/summary
4. Sir David Prain M.D., FRS (1857--1944). Director of Kew 1905 to 1922. Scottish physician and botanist. In 1884 Prain was recommended to Sir George King, home on leave from his position as director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta and looking for a medical student with botanical interests to enter the Indian Medical Service. Prain went to India as a physician / botanist in the Indian Medical Service, and in 1887 was appointed curator of the Calcutta herbarium. In 1898 he was promoted director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta as well as the Botanical Survey of India, and superintendent of Cinchona Cultivation in Bengal, remaining there until 1905. From 1898 to 1905 he also served as Professor of Botany at the Medical College of Calcutta. In 1905 he became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
5. Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (1867--1933). German botanist and curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Adolf Engler, he co-authored and published a syllabus on botanical families -- Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien (8th edition 1919). He also made contributions to Engler's Das Pflanzenreich, (e.g. the section on the family Monimiaceae). The Poaceae grass genus, Gilgiochloa, was posthumously named after him. His spouse, Charlotte Gilg-Benedict (1872--1936), was co-author in some of his publications, and has the author abbreviation Gilg-Ben.
6. Otto Warburg (1859--1938). German botanist and notable industrial agriculture expert. In 1885 he embarked on a 4 year expedition to Southern and Southeastern Asia, ending in Australia in 1889. In 1911 Warburg moved to Palestine and, in 1920 became founding director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Tel Aviv. It later became the 'Institute of Agriculture and Natural History'. Upon his return to Berlin he co-founded Der Tropen Pflanzer, a journal specializing in tropical agriculture which he edited for 24 years. In 1931 he founded the National Botanic Garden of Israel in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Mount Scopus together with the botanist Alexander Eig. After he retired from his position in Jerusalem, Warburg moved back to Berlin, and died in early 1938.
7. Paul Henri Lecomte (1856--1934). French botanist. Lecomte took part in scientific expeditions to North Africa, Egypt, the Antilles, French Guiana and French Indo-China. In 1906, after having volunteered his time for some twenty years at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Lecomte was formally appointed to head the Spermatophyte Department, a paid position, succeeding Louis Édouard Bureau. In 1917, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He authored over 15 books including: Notions de botanique (Botanical Ideas), Formation de la vanilline dans la vanille (The Formation of Vanillin in Vanilla), Les bois d’Indochine (The Trees of Indo-China) and Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra (Madagascar: The Trees and Flowers of Analamazaotra (Andasibe).
8. Sidney Alfred Skan (1870--1939). Assistant, and later Curator of Herbarium at Kew.
8a. An annotation written in pencil at the bottom of page two gives the reference: 'XXII pp.46-53'.
9. Note added on third page, not written in the hand of Joseph Hooker and initialed O.S. [Otto Stapf].

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