Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
OM GCSI CB PRS
Hooker in 1897
Born(1817-06-30)30 June 1817
Halesworth, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Died10 December 1911(1911-12-10) (aged 94)
Sunningdale, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Spouse
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    (m. 1851; died 1874)​
    Hyacinth Symonds
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    (m. 1875)​
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsKew Gardens
Author abbrev. (botany)Hook.f.
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.[1] He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend.[2] For 20 years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785–1865), botanist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13699. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 June 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Joseph Dalton Hooker". Darwin Correspondence Project. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  3. ^ Huxley 1918.
  4. ^ Turrill 1963.