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 ...