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The eminent British botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865)
expanded and developed the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew into a
world-leading centre of research and conservation. Appointed its
first full-time director in 1841, Hooker came to Kew following a
highly successful period in the chair of botany at Glasgow
University. He quickly began to extend the gardens, arranging for
the building of the now famous Palm House and establishing the
Museum of Economic Botany. This volume reissues Hooker's popular
guides to the gardens (sixteenth edition) and to the museum (third
edition), both published in 1858. Illustrated throughout, these
documents reveal the areas and specimens accessible to a receptive
Victorian public. Hooker's ten volumes of Icones Plantarum
(1837-54) have also been reissued in this series, along with many
works by his son and equally accomplished successor, Sir Joseph
Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
This world-famous work was begun by Sir William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865) in 1837, and the ten volumes reissued here were
produced under his authorship until 1854, at which point his son,
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) continued the work of publication.
Hooker's own herbarium, or collection of preserved plant specimens,
was so extensive that at one point he stored it in one house and
lived in another; it was left to the nation on his death. Each
volume contains 100 line drawings of plants, and each is
accompanied by a full Latin description, with notes in English on
habitat and significant features. The order of the plants in each
volume is not systematic, but two 'indexes' at the beginning
provide plant lists, in alphabetical order and 'arranged according
to the natural orders'.
German scientist Theodore Vogel (1812-1841) joined an 1841
expedition to the Niger as its chief botanist. He died in the
course of the journey, though not before taking extensive notes
about the plants that he encountered. His botanical collection and
diary were passed to the botanist William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865), who had been appointed as the first full-time director
of Kew Gardens in the same year. Hooker edited Vogel's diary and
observations and the resulting work, Niger Flora, was published in
1849. Because Vogel's period in West Africa was cut short by his
untimely death, much of the work looks at the flora of the places
the expedition stopped at along the way - Madeira, Tenerife and the
Cape Verde islands, before giving details - including numerous
illustrations - about west African plants. The works also includes
observations on African flora by other botanists, including Joseph
Dalton Hooker, William's son.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785 1865) was an eminent British
botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and
conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to
Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his
specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage
(described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the
notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write
this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a
second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. Volume
1 gives a brief history of Iceland, before Hooker begins his
detailed observations of the people and topography, and the flora
and fauna he found. His accounts of the lives of the people of the
island are of particular interest.
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785 1865) was an eminent British
botanist, best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Kew into a leading centre of botanic research and
conservation. At the age of nineteen he undertook an expedition to
Iceland, his first outside Britain. Unfortunately, all his
specimens and notes were destroyed in a fire on the return voyage
(described in Volume 1), but he was able, with the help of the
notes made by Sir Joseph Banks on an earlier expedition, to write
this account. His work was first published privately in 1811, but a
second edition was published in 1813 and is reproduced here. In
1809 England and Denmark-Norway were at war, and Iceland was a
Danish dependency. Volume 2 offers Hooker's first-hand observations
on the relationship between the two countries, and also includes
detailed descriptions of the many volcanoes on the island.
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