scholarly journals Colonial correspondents and Joseph Dalton Hooker

2013 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
A Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

1913 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 384-391
Author(s):  
F. O. Bower
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

1964 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
F. N. Howes ◽  
W. B. Turrill
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker.

1964 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
R. D'O. Good ◽  
W. B. Turrill
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. R. S. (1817-1911)

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Plant Taxonomy ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Varying Length ◽  
Joseph Dalton Hooker ◽  
Living Material

Joseph Dalton Hooker was eight years the junior of Charles Darwin (1809-82) and lived twenty-nine years after Darwin’s death. He was, for a long period, the personal friend of Darwin and the frank critic of many of Darwin’s researches and of the botanical aspects of Darwinian theories. Hooker was a botanist and, since he had an extensive first-hand experience of many branches of botany, above all of plant taxonomy and phytogeography, it was naturally the botanical aspects of evolutionary problems which both interested him and concerning which he was best able to help Darwin. Such help was gratefully and fully acknowledged by Darwin, as is shown by published correspondence. Numerous letters passed between Darwin and Hooker and the latter visited his friend at Down and stayed there for periods of varying length. A considerable amount of living material was obviously supplied from Kew for the later botanical experiments Darwin carried out at Down. The assistance given by Hooker in the accumulation of facts and in criticism of theories preparatory to the publication of the Origin of species and later works of Darwin, his presenting (with Lyell) and reading Darwin’s communication to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858 introducing the theory of natural selection, and his influence in gaining the speedy general acceptance of the theory of evolution are well known and it is not necessary to consider them here in much detail. It is proposed, instead, to outline very briefly the salient facts in the life of J.D. Hooker and then to devote the major part of this essay to a consideration of the development of his views on the problems of species, phytogeography, and evolution. In part at least, this means considering the influence of Darwin on Hooker but, from a wider viewpoint, it is possible to form some conception of the clarifying and unifying effects of the acceptance of the general theory of evolution on biological thought.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

JAMA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 242 (21) ◽  
pp. 2338-2338
Author(s):  
R. A. Kyle
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

From Specimen to System

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Lynn Voskuil
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Global Theory ◽  
Systematic Botany ◽  
Botanical Species ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
System P ◽  
Joseph Dalton Hooker

The discipline of nineteenth-century botany was central both to the British imperial project and to the development of global theory. This article shows how the work of botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) advanced certain concepts of globalization by exploring scale relationships in two mid-century texts—a systematic botany, Flora Indica (1855), and a travel narrative, Himalayan Journals (1854)—and by analyzing in particular the methodologies that link individual botanical species and their global distribution. In doing so, he drew upon tropes of the sublime and related aesthetic techniques to raise crucial hermeneutical questions and to perform an important scale critique. His contributions underscore the need for new scale critiques in the humanities today and the recognition that such critiques have significant antecedents in the work of nineteenth-century writers and scientists.

scholarly journals The Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

1918 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
E. A. Parkyn ◽  
Joseph Dalton Hooker ◽  
Leonard Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document