William Jackson Hooker
✓ Source-basedstableEnglish botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)
William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook.
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Hooker's illustrations for James Edward Smith's paper Characters of Hookeria (1808), about the genus named for Hooker by Smith
An etching owned by Sir Joseph Banks, which Hooker included in his Journal of a tour in Iceland (1813)
Plan of Glasgow's Royal Botanic Garden in 1825
Hooker in 1834
The Kew Gardens Palm House, from Tallis's Illustrated London (1851)
Hooker in c.1864
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William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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