Chalk portrait of Joseph Dalton Hooker by George Richmond, 1855 | Public Domain. Hooker served as the assistant surgeon and botanist on the adventure under the command of Captain James Clark Ross ...

Joseph Dalton Hooker was born in Suffolk, England in 1817. His father was a professor of botany in Glasgow, Scotland, and at the age of 15 Joseph became a student at Glasgow University. Upon his ...

On the last day of September 1839, the 22-year-old Joseph Dalton Hooker boarded HMS Erebus bound for far southern seas. He spent the next four years as assistant ship’s surgeon – a lowly ...

Joseph Dalton Hooker 1817-1911. Most skilled at the science of herbs. He was born at Halesworth in Suffolk on 30th June 1817, a son of Sir William Hooker, botany professor at Glasgow university, and ...

THE most distinguished son of a very distinguished father, Joseph Dalton Hooker was born at Hales-worth, in Suffolk, on June 30, 1817. Early in 1820 his father was appointed by the Crown to fill ...

Joseph Dalton Hooker, born 200 years ago this month, made extraordinary contributions to science over a life (1817–1911) that spanned the Victorian era and beyond. Royal Society president and ...

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), the son of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, was an outstanding British botanist and explorer. It is said that Hooker in ...

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of the greatest explorers of the nineteenth century, and the closest friend of Charles Darwin, was 32 years old when, in 1849, he visited the then remote kingdom of ...