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Hooker, Joseph Dalton Sir
Subject ID: 8798
| Title: | Sir |
|---|---|
| Last Name: | Hooker |
| First Name: | Joseph |
| Middle Names: | Dalton |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1817 |
| Birth Place: | Halesworth, Suffolk, England |
| Death Date: | 10 December 1911 |
| Death Place: | Sunningdale, Berkshire, England |
| Gender: | male |
| HI Archives Collection #: | 48, #133, #278 |
| Other Holdings: | GAC; GACO; McGill Univ. -4 letters, 1 autograph. Portrait in the botany hall of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are all portraits, undoubtedly copies, of Sir George Watt, J. C. Bose, Nathaniel Wallich, Shiv Ram Kashyap, M. O. P. Iyengar, William Roxburgh, Robert Wight, J. D. Hooker, Carolus Linnaeus, David Hopper, and two whose labels could not be read (one of the last names begins with Hur...). |
| Notes: | Portrait in HI portrait collection. GAC -4 letters, 1868, 1908. GACO -2 mentions. #48 - letter. #133 -”Index Kewensis” proofs, 1891-1895. #278 -handwriting sample. Collaborated with Darwin in researching evoutionary origin of species. Director of Kew. F.R.S. 1847, P.R.S. 1873-78 |
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Collection #48
Alternate Names
- Hooker, J. D.
- Hooker, Joseph
- Hooker, Joseph D.
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton Sir
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton Sir
- Hooker, Sir J. D.
- Hooker, Sir Joseph
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
Specialties
Evolutionary Genetics, Medicine, Phylogeny, Phytogeography, Plant Exploration, Taxonomy