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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Joseph Dalton Hooker, Robert Brown, Jacques Labillardiere, Rica Erickson, Ferdinand von Mueller, Allan Cunningham, Walter Hill, John Lhotsky, Charles Fraser, Robert D. FitzGerald, William Guilfoyle, William Paterson, Daniel Solander, Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, John Carne Bidwill, George Caley, Alex George, Herman Sporing, Jr., Godfrey Howitt, Desmond Herbert, Ralph Tate, James Backhouse, Joseph Maiden, John Green, Henry Deane, Richard Cunningham, Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, Amalie Dietrich, Alfred James Ewart, Henry George Smith, Ludwig Preiss, Franz Sieber, Alexander Morrison, Charles Austin Gardner, Brian Grieve, Byron Lamont, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, Constantin von Ettingshausen, Neville Graeme Marchant, Ernst Bernard Heyne, Roger Hnatiuk, Richard Kippist, Kevin Thiele, Sherwin Carlquist, Ernest Charles Nelson, Rudolf Schlechter, Bruce Maslin, Ian Brooker, Sven Berggren, Stephen Hopper, Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow, Alexander Floyd, Frederick Stoward, Ilma Grace Stone, Donald McGillivray, Robert Royce, Fred Lullfitz, Juliet Wege, Bernard Hyland, Edward Edgar Pescott, Kenneth Newbey, Richard Pescott, Leslie Pedley, Mary Tindale. Excerpt: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS (30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker atten...
