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Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817-1911)
1817
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1911
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
language of expression: Latin, English
educated at: University of Glasgow
occupation: botanist, explorer, pteridologist, bryologist, mycologist, surgeon
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts, Royal medal, Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India, Darwin Medal, Albert Medal, Cothenius Medal, Darwin–Wallace Medal, Clarke Medal, Linnean Medal, Victoria Medal of Honour, Fellow of the Ethnological Society of London, Founder’s Medal
position held: president of the Royal Society
student of: William Jackson Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty 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.
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12A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon
botanical book
author: Henry Trimen, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston
illustrator: William de Alwis, George de Alwis, Harmanis de Alwis
Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India
book by Joseph Dalton Hooker
author: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson
Flora Novae-Zelandiae
book by Joseph Dalton Hooker
author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
illustrator: Walter Hood Fitch
1851
Flora Tasmaniae
book by Joseph Dalton Hooker
author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
illustrator: Walter Hood Fitch
1853
Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita
book
author: George Bentham, Joseph Dalton Hooker
1862
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843
book by Joseph Dalton Hooker
author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
illustrator: Walter Hood Fitch
1844
Flora of Fuegia, the Falkland Islands, etc
book by Joseph Dalton Hooker
author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
illustrator: Walter Hood Fitch
1845