Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of...
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Erebus and Mount Terror, named after each ship. The young botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker made his name on the expedition. The expedition confirmed the existence...
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Flora Antarctica (section Joseph Dalton Hooker)
by the British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker and published in parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London. Hooker sailed on HMS Erebus as...
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Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (author)...
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affinities of plants and animals in distant locations. Such scientists as Joseph Dalton Hooker noted puzzling geological, botanical, and zoological similarities...
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a Letter from Darwin to Asa Gray, and an introductory letter by Joseph Dalton Hooker and Charles Lyell. The article was the first announcement of the...
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Gerrardanthus macrorhizus (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Gerrardanthus macrorhizus, also known as bigfoot, is a species of plant native to southern Africa. It is a popular pot plant. de Vosjoli, Philippe (2004)...
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glacier or Pauhunri glacier, and is the source of the Teesta river. Joseph Dalton Hooker referred to the lake as Cholamoo lake. Its name is also spelled Chho...
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the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode...
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Anne's Church, Kew. His son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, succeeded him as Director of Kew Gardens. Hooker's father Joseph Hooker was related to the Baring family...
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