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Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden.
William Jackson Hooker (Norwich, 6 de Julho de 1785 — Londres, 12 de Agosto de 1865), sócio da Royal Society de Londres, foi um botânico e sistemata, especialista em micologia e em criptogâmicas, que se celebrizou como director dos Royal Gardens de Kew, instituição que dirigiu na fase decisiva do seu desenvolvimento inicial ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker (born July 6, 1785, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died August 12, 1865, Kew, Surrey) was an English botanist who was the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Gardens), near London.
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17 de mai. de 2018 · Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785–1865) A British botanist and authority on cryptogamic botany, who became the first director (1841–65) of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He studied the botany of Iceland (1809) and of France, Switzerland, and northern Italy (1814).
William Jackson Hooker was named after his godfather William Jackson (1757–1789), his mother's cousin, and son of John Jackson (1710–1795), a wealthy brewer and farmer, three times mayor of Canterbury, Kent.
Sir William Jackson Hooker was born in Norwich, 6 July 1785. His interest in botany developed early - he discovered the moss Buxbaumia aphylla in 1805 and the positive response he...
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist, was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in which capacity he had significant influence on the study of Australian flora.
