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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS (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]

Sir
Joseph Dalton Hooker
OM GCSI CB PRS

(1817-06-30)30 June 1817

Halesworth, Suffolk, United Kingdom

10 December 1911(1911-12-10) (aged 94)

Sunningdale, Berkshire, United Kingdom

University of Glasgow

Botany

Kew Gardens

Hook.f.

William Henslow Hooker (1853–1942)

(1854–1945) married William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

Harriet Anne Hooker

Charles Paget Hooker (1855–1933)

Maria Elizabeth Hooker (1857–1863) died aged 6.

Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker (1860–1932)

(1867–1944) statistician

Reginald Hawthorn Hooker

Grace Ellen Hooker (1868–1955)[9][10]

[8]

After meeting and talking to , whom he described as respectable and well-spoken: "All the school children are brought up to believe in him [Brigham Young], and in a lot of scripture history as useless and idle as that taught in our schools."

Brigham Young

Of : the "finger-tip of civilisation" where "the people sleep without locks to their doors, the fire-engines are well-manned and in capital order, and there is no end of food".

Georgetown

"The are most like us in language, speech and habits... The Americans are great and promiscuous eaters... beds are remarkably clean and good, but the pillows are too soft."[33]

New Englanders

1847

Fellow of the Royal Society

1869 Companion of the [58]

Order of the Bath

1869 Election to the [59]

American Philosophical Society

1877 Knight Commander of the

Order of the Star of India

1873

President of the Royal Society

1883 of the Royal Geographical Society

Founder's Medal

1885 Foreign member of the [60]

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

1897 Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India

1902 from the Kingdom of Prussia, awarded by the German Emperor[61]

Pour le Mérite

1907

Order of Merit

1844–1859: Flora Antarctica: the botany of the Antarctic voyage. 3 vols, 1844 (general), 1853 (New Zealand), 1859 (Tasmania). Reeve, London.

1864–1867: Handbook of the New Zealand flora

1849: Niger flora

1849–1851: The Rhododendrons of Sikkim–Himalaya

1854:

Himalayan Journals, or notes of a naturalist, in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, Khasia Mountains ...

1855: Illustrations of Himalayan plants

1855: Flora indica, with

Thomas Thomson

1858: . L. Reeve. 1858. ("Bentham & Hooker")

Handbook of the British Flora: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous To, Or Naturalized In, the British Isles : for the Use of Beginners and Amateurs

1859: A century of Indian orchids

1859: Introductory Essay to the Flora of Australia

[66]

1862–1883: . Vol. Primum, Sistens Dicotyledonum Polypetalarum Ordines LXXXIII: Ranunculareas—Cornaceas. London: Reeve & Co. 1867. with George Bentham

Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita

1862–1883: (in Latin). London: Reeve & Company. 1876. with George Bentham

Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in Herbariis kewensibus servata definita Vol. Secundi

1870; 1878: The student's flora of the British Isles. Macmillan, London.

1872–1897: . London: L. Reeve & Co. 1890. ISBN 0-913196-29-0.

The Flora of British India: Volume V, Chenopodiaceæ to Orchideæ

[Traité général de botanique]. trans. Frances Harriet Hooker. London: Longmans Green. 1873 [1867]. with Emmanuel Le Maout

A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical in two parts

1878: Journal of a Tour in Marocco and The Great Atlas. Macmillan, London. with

John Ball

1898–1900: Handbook to the Ceylon flora

1904–1906: An epitome to the British Indian species of Impatiens

Bentham & Hooker system

European and American voyages of scientific exploration

Category:Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker

at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Portraits of Joseph Dalton Hooker

Hooker's letters from the Kew Gardens' archive

. Darwin Correspondence Project. University of Cambridge. 1843–1882. Retrieved 22 August 2010.

"Correspondence between Joseph Hooker and Charles Darwin"

at the Cambridge Digital Library

Darwin–Hooker Correspondence

Hooker's letters from the Royal Horticultural Society's Digital Collections website

's work on orchids

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Missouri Botanical Garden Library

"Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817–1911)" Botanicus

Works by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Hooker's Himalayan Journals

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Joseph Dalton Hooker

at Biodiversity Heritage Library

Works by Joseph Dalton Hooker

– Correspondence to Joseph Dalton Hooker as Director of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Directors' Correspondence Project