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31 de mar. de 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 ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB MD FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer of the 19th century. Hooker was one of the founders of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin 's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his ...
No single set of letters was more important to Darwin, however, or is more important now, than those exchanged with his closest friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911). At around 10% of Darwin's surviving correspondence, the 1,200 letters published here provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored.
18 de nov. de 2011 · Thus wrote Mea Allan in her book The Hookers of Kew, introducing Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911).The son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Joseph succeeded his father as the second Director in 1865, having served under him as Assistant Director from 1855.
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 ...
30 de jun. de 2017 · Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) On June 30, 1817, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was born, one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin ‘s [ 4] closest friend. Furthermore, he was assistant on Sir James Ross ‘s ...
30 de abr. de 2024 · Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. Most skilled at the science of herbs. He was born at Halesworth in Suffolk on 30th June 1817, a son of Sir William Hooker, botany professor at Glasgow university, and his wife Maria (Turner). Educated in Glasgow he graduated as a doctor and sailed on an expedition to New Zealand and the Antarctic as a surgeon.
