William Jackson Hooker
English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)
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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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- Gulielmus Hooker (botanicus)Low confidencewikipedia · la.wikipedia.org
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