Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911) is the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century. He wrote several scientific papers and monographs - often describing his journeys to different countries. In 1847, Hooker undertook a 3-year-long expedition to the Himalayas, where he became the first European to collect plants in the area. Also, he travelled to the South Pole and Palestine (1860), Morocco (1871), and the United States (1877). Through these expeditions, he quickly built up an impressive reputation at home. In 1855, Hooker was appointed assistant director of the Royal Botanic...
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911) is the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century. He wrote several scientific papers and monographs...
This textbook was originally published in 1870, but is here reissued in the third edition of 1884. Its object was 'to supply students and field-botanists with a fuller account of the Flowering Plants and Vascular Cryptograms of the British Islands than the manuals hitherto in use aim at giving'. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 1911), one of the most eminent botanists of the later nineteenth century, was educated at Glasgow, and developed his studies of plant life through expeditions all over the world. (Several of his other works are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.) A close...
This textbook was originally published in 1870, but is here reissued in the third edition of 1884. Its object was 'to supply students and field-botani...
