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Mar 31, 2017 · Joseph Hooker: Putting plants in their place. Kew celebrates one of Victorian Britain's most important scientists, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), by Rebecca Cater, Gallery Assistant. Hooker was an adventurer, scientist and a close friend of Charles Darwin. He sailed to many places, including India and the Antarctic, to seek further ...
The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans forty years of Darwin’s mature working life from 1843 until his death in 1882 and bring ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker. Joseph Dalton Hooker, född 30 juni 1817 i Halesworth, Suffolk, död 10 december 1911 i Sunningdale, Berkshire, var en brittisk botaniker och upptäcktsresande. Han räknas som grundaren av ämnet geografisk botanik, och var en av Charles Darwins närmaste vänner. I tjugo år var han föreståndare för Royal Botanical ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker - The Antarctic. B orn in Halesworth, Suffolk, England on the 30 th of June, in 1817, Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the truly great plant explorers. Some children are overwhelmed by the success of their parents, or perhaps it is the parents who overlook their children while pursuing their own careers, but young Joseph was ...
Hooker was born in Suffolk in 1817, as the younger son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), who was appointed Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow in 1820. As a result, the boy grew up mainly in Scotland, and received his education there. He soon developed an interest in his father's newly expanding subject.
May 5, 2017 · RGB Kew. On the last day of September 1839, the 22-year-old Joseph Dalton Hooker boarded HMS Erebus bound for far southern seas. He spent the next four years as assistant ship’s surgeon – a ...
Kew will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker’s birth this year, with a number of events and also further work on his correspondence. Joseph Dalton Hooker was born on 30 June 1817 in Halesworth, Suffolk. The second child of William Jackson Hooker, Joseph would, during the course of his life, become a ‘botanical ...
