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Jun 30, 2017 · Joseph Dalton Hooker, a British botanist, was born June 30, 1817. Hooker met Charles Darwin in 1839, as Hooker was departing for a voyage to the Antarctic. When Hooker returned in 1843, the two struck up a correspondence, and very soon Hooker had become Darwin’s closest friend...
May 5, 2017 · 5 May 2017. Hooker visited places no botanist had been before. 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 ...
George Bentham (1800–1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) were British botanists who were closely affiliated to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England. Their system of botanical taxonomy was based on the principle of natural affinities and is considered as pre-Darwinian as it does not take evolution into account.
Joseph Hooker's first major botanical expedition was on HMS Erebus as part of Captain James Clark Ross' Antarctica expedition (1839-1843). During his life time, Joseph Hooker travelled extensively. Travel and exploration were a major way in which aspiring men of science like Hooker could establish themselves during the nineteenth century.
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) Fifteen years before On the Origin of Species would appear in print (1859), Darwin penned a now famous letter to Joseph Hooker, eminent botanist and later Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1865-85). In this letter ( January 11, 1844) to his friend, colleague, and confidant, Darwin first shared his ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker was eight years the junior of Charles Darwin (1809-82) and lived twenty-nine years after Darwin’s death. He was, for a long period, the personal friend of Darwin and the frank critic of many of Darwin’s researches and of the botanical aspects of Darwinian theories. Hooker was a botanist and, since he had an extensive ...
Apr 17, 2007 · Internet Archive Audio. Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. ... Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker by Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, ...
