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Biographical entry Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817 - 1911)

FRS

Born
30 June 1817
Halesworth, Suffolk, England
Died
10 December 1911
Windlesham, Berkshire, England
Occupation
Botanist and Explorer

Summary

(Sir) Joseph Dalton Hooker was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1865-85 and author of "Flora Tasmaniae" (London, 1860). He visited Tasmania as a surgeon and botanist on James Ross's Antarctic Expedition 1839-42.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Joseph Dalton Hooker - Records, 1839 - 1907, ML DOC 1122; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

  • Joseph Dalton Hooker - Records, 1857 - 1896, MSS M3; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Desmond, Ray, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Traveller and Plant Collector, Antique Collectors Club in association with The Royal Horticultural Society, Kew, London, 1999, 286 pp. Details
  • Huxley, L, Life and Letters of Sir J. D. Hooker, 1918 edn, 2 vols, John Murray, London, 1918. Details
  • Turrill, W. B., Pioneer Plant Geography. The phytogeographical researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Hague, 1953. Details

Book Sections

  • Curtis, Winifred M., 'Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817-1911), botanist and explorer', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 416-417. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040469b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Yaldwyn, John and Hobbs, Juliet (eds), My Dear Hector: Letters from Joseph Dalton Hooker to James Hector, 1862-1893, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 1998, 292 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Hooker, J. D., 'George Bentham, FRS', Annals of Botany, vol. 12, 1898. Details
  • Hooker, J. D., 'Review of 'George Bentham'', Kew Bulletin, 1906, p. 106. Details
  • Kantvilas, G., 'A Brief History of Lichenology in Tasmania, Australia', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 117, 1983, pp. 41-52. Details
  • Maiden, J.H., 'Sir Joseph Hooker. Presidential Address.', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xivi, 1912, pp. 3-6. Details
  • Stevens, P.F., 'J.D. Hooker, George Bentham, Asa Gray and Ferdinand Mueller on Species Limits in Theory and Practice: a Mid-Nineteenth-Century Debate and its Repercussions', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997, pp. 335-344. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9971130345.htm. Details

Reviews

Online Resources

  • National Library of Australia, 'Hooker, Joseph Dalton', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-864210. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 July 2006