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Hace 2 días · In 1860 Kew Gardens’ Deputy Director Joseph Dalton Hooker published the first thorough review of the phytogeography of the Australian continent. He, too, followed up on Huegel’s insight concerning differences between the Albany and Perth floras.
Hace 2 días · As a female artist in the Victorian era, she collaborated with distinguished botanists like Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and Charles Darwin, which helped elevate the scientific value of her work. Her detailed representation of flora contributed to the education of botanists and the public alike, by showcasing plant species from around the world in their natural habitats.
Hace 4 días · Hadley, Maine. DIED. October 31, 1879. Garden City, New York. ARMY. Union. Hooker attended Hopkins Academy in Hadley before he went to West Point. He graduated from West Point in 1837, ranked 29 out of 50 in his class. He was assigned to the artillery and served in the Seminole War, on the frontier, Adjutant at West Point, and the Mexican War.
Hace 1 día · Huxley was therefore one of the small group who knew about Darwin's ideas before they were published (the group included Joseph Dalton Hooker and Charles Lyell). The first publication by Darwin of his ideas came when Wallace sent Darwin his famous paper on natural selection, which was presented by Lyell and Hooker to the Linnean Society in 1858 alongside excerpts from Darwin's notebook and a ...
Hace 2 días · Joseph Dalton Hooker "For his services to botanical science as an investigator, author, and traveller" 1888: Thomas Henry Huxley "For his investigations on the morphology and histology of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, and for his services to biological science in general during many past years" 1889: George Salmon
Hace 3 días · He died in 1887, and his daughter Hyacinth wife of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker is now lady of the manor of Pendock. Richard de Berking, Abbot of Westminster (1222–46), bought a quit-rent of 24s. at Pendock, with two tenants who held their land of the sacrist.
Hace 2 días · 231.—John Hooker's Account of the Salmons taken yn the ryver of Ex within the Manor of Exylonde, 1580 to 1582. Paper, small 8vo. 232.—Similar Account, 1582–3. Paper, small 8vo. Both these are in Hooker's handwriting. 233.—Memorials of Merchants and Traders about the making a double Loc at the bottom of the Canal, A.D. 1820.
