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    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany...
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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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    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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  • Hawthorn Hooker (1867–1944), English statistician, son of Joseph Dalton Hooker Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian Richard Hooker (author)...
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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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    affinities of plants and animals in distant locations. Such scientists as Joseph Dalton Hooker noted puzzling geological, botanical, and zoological similarities...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode...
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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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  • Hooker, M.D. (1816-1840) was a British physician and botanist, the son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and an elder brother to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker...
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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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  • Origin of Species, he did mention a "warm little pond" in a letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker dated February 1, 1871: It is often said that all the conditions...
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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 South...
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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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    Garcinia spicata (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Garcinia spicata is a species of medium tree with 30 ft in the family Clusiaceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. The tree produces a fruit which...
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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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    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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    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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    Dierama pulcherrimum (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Dierama pulcherrimum, angel's fishing rod, is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae, native to South Africa. Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft)...
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    Astelia nervosa (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Astelia nervosa, also known as mountain astelia or, along with a number of other species, as bush flax, is a herbaceous plant native to New Zealand. A...
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    Coprosma linariifolia (category Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker)
    Coprosma linariifolia, commonly called mikimiki or yellow wood, is a shrub or small tree that is native to New Zealand. C. linariifolia is found in lowland...
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