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William Jackson Hooker

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Gender Male
Death159 years ago
Date of birth July 6,1785
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Norwich
United Kingdom
Date of died August 12,1865
DiedLondon Borough Of Richmond Upon Thames
United Kingdom
Alma mater Norwich School
Place of burialEngland, United Kingdom
Children Joseph Dalton Hooker
William Dawson Hooker
Elizabeth Hooker
Elisabeth Hooker
Job Plant Biologist
Current partner Maria Turner
Parents Joseph Hooker
Lydia Vincent
NationalityBritish
English
Grandchildren Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer
Marie Elizabeth Hooker
Charles Paget Hooker
Education Norwich School
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Genera Filicum
Exotic Flora
The British Flora
The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage
Synopsis Filicum: Or, A Synopsis of All Known Ferns, Including the Osmundaceae, Schizaeaceae, Marattiaceae, and Ophioglossaceae (chiefly Derived from the Kew Herbarium) Accompanied by Figures Representing the Essential Characters of Each Genus
Companion to the Botanical Magazine
Botanical Miscellany
“The” London Journal of Botany
Flora Boreali- Americana
Flora Scotica; Or, a Description of Scottish Plants: Arranged Both According to the Artificial and Natural Methods. In Two Parts
Muscologia Britannica: Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland Systematically Arranged and Described with Plates Illustrative of the Characters of the Genera and Species
Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809
The British Ferns, Or, Colored Figures and Descriptions with the Needful Analyses of the Fructification and Venation of the Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland: Systematically Arranged
Synopsis Filicum: Or, A Synopsis of All Known Ferns, Including the Osmundaceae, Schizaeaceae, Marattiaceae, and Ophioglossaceae, (chiefly Derived from the Kew Herbarium)
Garden Ferns; Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions: With the Needful Analyses of the Fructification and Venation, of a Selection of Exotic Ferns Adapted for Cultivation in the Garden, Hothouse, and Conservatory
A Second Century of Ferns
Icones Plantarus Or Figures with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New Or Rare Plants
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Flora Scotia; Or a Description of Scottish Plants Arranged Both According to the Artificial and Natural Methods;
A Catalogue of Plants Contained in the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow, in the Year 1825
The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the Earth, Physical, Statistical, Civil, and Political . . .
Hooker's Icones Plantarum
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants. . . with Remarks Upon Their Generic and Specific Characters, Natural Orders, History, Culture, Time of Flowering, &c
Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Or, Figures, with Descriptive Characters and Remarks, of New and Rare Plants, Selected from the Kew Herbarium
Icones Plantarum
A Commentary on the New Taxa Described in The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage by W. J. Hooker and G. A. Walker-Arnott
Icones Plantarum: Volume 7: Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New Or Rare Plants, Selected from the Author's Herbarium
Medical Botany: Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates of All the Medicinal Plants, Comprehended in the Catalogues of the Materia Medica, as Published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin
Journal Of Botany, (2Nd Series, 4 Vols)
Exotic Flora, Containing Figures And Descriptions Of New, Rare Or Otherwise Interesting Exotic Plants, Especially Of Such As Are Deserving Of Being Cultivated In Our Gardens; Together With Remarks Upon Their Generic And Specific Characters, Natural Order
Synopsis Filicum; Or, a Synopsis of All Known Ferns, Including the Osmundace, Schizsve, Marattiace, and Ophioglossace (Chiefly Derived from the Kew Herbarium)
Species Filicum; Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such As Exist - Scholar's Choice Edition
Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage Conducted by Captain James Clark Ross . . . in Her Majesty's Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror: With Observations on the Tussac Grass of the Falkland Islands
Oceanic Sketches
The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage, Genera Filicum
Niger Flora
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Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum.

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