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    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of...
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    by the British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker and published in parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London. Hooker sailed on HMS Erebus as...
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    Anne's Church, Kew. His son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, succeeded him as Director of Kew Gardens. Hooker's father Joseph Hooker was related to the Baring family...
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    Erebus and Mount Terror, named after each ship. The young botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker made his name on the expedition. The expedition confirmed the existence...
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    three volumes between 1862 and 1883. George Bentham (1800–1884) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) were British botanists who were closely affiliated to...
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    Gerrardanthus macrorhizus (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Gerrardanthus macrorhizus, also known as bigfoot, is a species of plant native to southern Africa. It is a popular pot plant. de Vosjoli, Philippe (2004)...
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    to research the geological past. In 1855, two English scientists, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Edward William Binney, made the first scientific description...
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    Delosperma cooperi (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Delosperma cooperi (syn. Mesembryanthemum cooperi), the trailing Iceplant, hardy iceplant or pink carpet, is a dwarf perennial plant native to South Africa...
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    linking Africa and Eurasia In the 19th century, scientists including Joseph Dalton Hooker noted puzzling geological, botanical, and zoological similarities...
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    Illicium verum (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Illicium verum (star anise or badian, Chinese star anise, star anise seed, star aniseed and star of anise) is a medium-sized evergreen tree native to northeast...
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  • Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (author)...
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    Echium wildpretii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is an herbaceous biennial plant that grows up to 3 m (10 ft) in height...
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    glacier or Pauhunri glacier, and is the source of the Teesta river. Joseph Dalton Hooker referred to the lake as Cholamoo lake. Its name is also spelled Chho...
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    the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Galton, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer...
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    Garden to produce textile dyes, an industry which Spain dominated. Joseph Dalton Hooker says of this Botanical Garden that "Amongst its greatest triumphs...
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    Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI. He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch...
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    Euphorbia griffithii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Euphorbia griffithii, the Griffith's spurge, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to Bhutan, Tibet and south west...
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    Eucalyptus gunnii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    2019. "Eucalyptus gunnii". APNI. Retrieved 23 July 2019. Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1844). Hooker, William Jackson (ed.). "Note of the Cider Tree". London...
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    renamed as roads, and connected to the Hill Cart Road. The botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, who visited Darjeeling in the 1840s, noted that carts and pack animals...
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    Euphorbia obesa (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Euphorbia obesa is a subtropical succulent species of flowering plant in the genus Euphorbia. It comes from the south-central Cape Provinces of South Africa...
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  • Dalton (priest) (1817–1905), Irish Jesuit Joe Dalton (Lucky Luke), fictional character Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), British botanist and explorer This...
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    Delosperma sutherlandii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Delosperma sutherlandii is a dwarf perennial plant, native to South Africa. It forms a dense lawn with abundant, long-lasting flowering. It will reach...
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    Dianella tasmanica (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    first described in 1858 by eminent English botanist and explorer Joseph Dalton Hooker. The genus name is derived from the Roman goddess Diana, with a diminutive...
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    Pileostegia viburnoides (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Pileostegia viburnoides, a climbing plant related to the hydrangea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to India and eastern...
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    Croumbie Brown, Colonial Botanist at the Cape, who sent them on to Joseph Dalton Hooker, who described the species. "The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org...
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    Leucosphaera bainesii (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Leucosphaera bainesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is a subshrub native to southern tropical and southern Africa, ranging...
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    Azara microphylla (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Azara microphylla, the boxleaf azara, is a species of flowering plant in the willow family Salicaceae, native to Chile and Argentina. Growing to 10 metres...
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    Hoya serpens (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    sweet fragrance. It was first discovered and published by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1883. FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA Vol. 4 p. 55, J. D. Hooker, (1883) v t e...
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    Edward Hubbard A. S. Hitchcock Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel Otto Stapf Joseph Dalton Hooker Norman Loftus Bor Jan-Frits Veldkamp William Derek Clayton Robert...
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  • as Joe Hooker, record producer, writer and singer & Vice-President of Bad Boy Records Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist Joseph Lee Hooker, American...
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