SIR

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• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

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• DALTON
• DALTON, JOHN (1766-1844)

DALTON

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• HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
• HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
• SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
• HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
• HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)

HOOKER (1817—

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• ENGLISH

English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was

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• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 3oth of

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• JUNE

June 1817, at Halesworth,

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• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk. He was educated at

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• GLASGOW

Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.  D. degree there in 1839 joined Sir James Ross's Antarctic expedition, receiving a commission as assistant-surgeon on the "Erebus." The botanical fruits of the three years he thus spent in the Southern Seas were the Flora Antarctica, Flora Novae Zelandiae and Flora Tasmania), which he published on his return . His next expedition was to the northern frontiers of India (1847–1851), and the expenses in this case also were partially defrayed by the government . The party had its full share of adventure . Hooker and his friend Dr Campbell were detained in prison for some time by the raja of Sikkim, but nevertheless they were able to bring back important results, both geographical and botanical . Their survey of hitherto unexplored regions was published by the Calcutta Trigonometrical Survey Office, and their botanical observations formed the basis of elaborate works on the rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya and on the flora of India . Among other journeys undertaken by Hooker may be mentioned those to Palestine (186o), Morocco (1871), and the United States (1877), all yielding valuable scientific information . In the midst of all this travelling in foreign countries he quickly built up for himself a high scientific reputation at home . In 1855 he was appointed assistant-director of Kew Gardens, and in 1865 he succeeded his father as full director, holding the post for twenty years . At the early age of thirty he was elected a fellow of-the Royal Society, and in 1873 he was chosen its president; he received three of its medals—a Royal in 1854, the Copley in 1887 and the Darwin in 1892 . He acted as president of the British Association at its Norwich meeting of 1868, when his address was remarkable for its championship of Darwinian theories . Of Darwin, indeed, he was an early friend and sup-porter: it was he who, with Lyell, first induced Darwin to make his views public, and the author of The Origin of Species has recorded his indebtedness to Hooker's wide knowledge and balanced judgment . Sir Joseph Hooker is the author of numerous scientific papers and monographs, and his larger books include, in addition to those already mentioned, a standard Student's Flora of the British Isies and a monumental work, the Genera plantarusn, based on the collections at Kew, in which he had the assistance of Bentham .

On the publication of the last

part of his Flora of British India in 1897 he was created G.C.S.I., of which order he had been made a knight commander twenty years before; and twenty years later, on attaining the age of ninety, he was awarded the Order of Merit .