Joseph Dalton Hooker

The life and work of Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the most notable botanists of the nineteenth century, is chronicled in this website: Joseph Dalton Hooker.

A close friend of Charles Darwin, Hooker travelled collecting plants and later served as director of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1865 to 1885. A productive author on taxonomy and the distribution of species, he composed several volumes on the flora of Australasia and India.

The website is maintained by Jim Endersby of Cambridge University, who is currently writing a book on Joseph Dalton Hooker. Along with a biography of Hooker, the site contains valuable information on his work, the history of botany and a well-maintained set of relevant links.

Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 12:40 PM on June 21, 2004

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