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Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. (Paperback)
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Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. (Paperback)
Series: Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. 2 Volume Set, Volume 2
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 1911) was one of the most eminent
botanists of the later nineteenth century. Educated at Glasgow, he
developed his studies of plant life by examining specimens all over
the world. After several successful scientific expeditions, first
to the Antarctic and later to India, he was appointed to succeed
his father as Director of the Botanical Gardens at Kew. Hooker was
the first to hear of and support Charles Darwin's theory of natural
selection, and over their long friendship the two scientists
exchanged many letters. Another close friend was the scientist T.
H. Huxley, and it was the latter's son, Leonard (1860 1933), who
published this standard biography in 1918. The second volume
details Hooker's management of Kew, his later travels, and the end
of his long life.
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