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Joseph Dalton Hooker. Joseph Dalton Hooker was arguably the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector, he was one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends and eventually became director of Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The image on the left is believed to be the last photograph ever taken ...
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist and explorer, was born on 30 June 1817 at Halesworth, Suffolk, England, second son of the distinguished botanist, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), and his wife Maria Sarah, eldest daughter of Dawson Turner, banker and naturalist of Norwich. His father, later director of the Royal Botanic ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker war der zweite Sohn von William Jackson Hooker und dessen Frau Maria Sarah Turner (1797–1872). Er besuchte gemeinsam mit seinem älteren Bruder William zunächst die Glasgow High School. 1832 begannen beide an der University of Glasgow zu studieren.
10 de ago. de 2012 · Joseph Hooker: Botanical Trailblazer. . 64 pp. Paperback. ISBN 9781842464694. £8. Following in the footsteps of his father William Hooker, the first Director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was one of the most influential figures in Kew's history and has been described as ‘the greatest Victorian botanist’.
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 into sharp focus every aspect of Darwin’s ...
27 de jun. de 2018 · Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the leading British botanists of the late nineteenth century. He was born in Halesworth, Sussex, and was the son of another great British botanist, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865). Hooker graduated with a degree in medicine from Glasgow University, where his father was a professor of botany.
Há 6 dias · Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversity and economic botany throughout his many expeditions, he remains an influential figure to modern botanical science.
