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 ...

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 ...

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 ...