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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Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (author)...
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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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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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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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Delosperma cooperi (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Delosperma cooperi (syn. Mesembryanthemum cooperi), the trailing Iceplant, hardy iceplant or pink carpet, is a dwarf perennial plant native to South Africa...
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as Joe Hooker, record producer, writer and singer & Vice-President of Bad Boy Records Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist Joseph Lee Hooker, American...
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three volumes between 1862 and 1883. George Bentham (1800–1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) were British botanists who were closely affiliated to...
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Garden to produce textile dyes, an industry which Spain dominated. Joseph Dalton Hooker says of this Botanical Garden that "Amongst its greatest triumphs...
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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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Illicium verum (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Illicium verum (star anise or badian, Chinese star anise, star anise seed, star aniseed and star of anise) is a medium-sized evergreen tree native to northeast...
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Eucalyptus gunnii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
2019. "Eucalyptus gunnii". APNI. Retrieved 23 July 2019. Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1844). Hooker, William Jackson (ed.). "Note of the Cider Tree". London...
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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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and naturalist. The specific epithet hookeri was named after Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), who travelled under James Clark Ross in the Ross expedition...
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Abrotanella spathulata (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Abrotanella spathulata is a member of the daisy family and is endemic species of the Antipodean Islands. Kew Science Plants of the World Online, retrieved...
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Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch...
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to research the geological past. In 1855, two English scientists, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Edward William Binney, made the first scientific description...
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Dalton (priest) (1817–1905), Irish Jesuit Joe Dalton (Lucky Luke), fictional character Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), British botanist and explorer This...
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of balsam from Southeast Asia that was described by the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker and was noted for its flower that resemble a "flying cockatoo". It...
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for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his Genera Plantarum (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Bentham...
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Psiloxylon (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Psiloxylon mauritianum (known locally as "bois bigaignon") is a species of flowering plant, the sole species of the genus Psiloxylon. It is endemic to...
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Euphorbia obesa (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Euphorbia obesa is a subtropical succulent species of flowering plant in the genus Euphorbia. It comes from the south-central Cape Provinces of South Africa...
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Dierama pulcherrimum (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Dierama pulcherrimum, angel's fishing rod, is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae, native to South Africa. Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft)...
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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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Abrotanella inconspicua (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Abrotanella inconspicua is a member of the daisy family and is found on Stewart Island and South Island of New Zealand. Kew Science Plants of the World...
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Podocarpus lawrencei (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Podocarpus lawrencei is a species of podocarp native throughout the Australian high country, from southern Tasmania through to the New South Wales highlands...
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Garcinia spicata (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Garcinia spicata is a species of medium tree with 30 ft in the family Clusiaceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. The tree produces a fruit which...
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Croumbie Brown, Colonial Botanist at the Cape, who sent them on to Joseph Dalton Hooker, who described the species. "The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org...
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Echium wildpretii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is an herbaceous biennial plant that grows up to 3 m (10 ft) in height...
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