1881 Sir Joseph Hooker Botanist Darwinian is a photograph by Paul D Stewart which was uploaded on July 27th, 2016.
1881 Sir Joseph Hooker Botanist Darwinian
Woodburytype from Men of Mark, by Lock and Whitfield, published 1881 by Sampson Low. Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), English botanist in old age.... more
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1881 Sir Joseph Hooker Botanist Darwinian
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Woodburytype from Men of Mark", by Lock and Whitfield, published 1881 by Sampson Low. Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), English botanist in old age. Educated in medicine at Glasgow, Hooker served as Assistant Surgeon and Naturalist on Ross' Antarctic expedition of 1839-43. He then travelled widely, visiting India, Palestine and the United States. He published many books from his observations of indigenous plants, the greatest being Flora of British India (1872-97). Later he succeeded his father, Sir William Hooker, as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. He also joined Bentham in producing the immense Genera Plantarum, a seven-volume work on the classification of plants. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1873."
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