biography
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Hooker, Sir Joseph (Dalton)
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| lived:
| (1817–1911)
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| biography:
| Botanist and traveller, born in Halesworth, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Glasgow University, and eventually succeeded his father as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (1865). He was a friend of Darwin, and supported Darwin's theory of evolution. He went on several expeditions which resulted in works on the flora of New Zealand, Antarctica, and India, as well as his Himalayan Journals (1854) and his monumental Genera plantarum. |
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