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6 giorni fa · JDH recounts the current whereabouts & activities of his children: Harriet Anne Hooker is in Cheltenham with her great aunt, William Henslow Hooker continues with the fiddle, & Charles Paget Hooker has spent his holiday with Barnard at Cheltenham.
3 giorni fa · The species was collected by Hugh Low on Mount Kinabalu in 1858, and described the next year by Joseph Dalton Hooker, who named it after James Brooke, the first White Rajah of Sarawak. Hooker called it "one of the most striking vegetable productions hither-to discovered".
3 giorni fa · He met Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Tyndall, who remained his lifelong friends. The Admiralty retained him as a nominal assistant-surgeon, so he might work on the specimens he collected and the observations he made during the voyage of the Rattlesnake .
14 mag 2024 · “Joseph Dalton Hooker,” Santa Clara University Digital Exhibits, accessed May 14, 2024, https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/items/show/4390.
14 mag 2024 · The early exploration of Kangchenjunga dates back to the mid-19th century when British explorers and surveyors began mapping the region. The mountain was first surveyed in 1848-49 by British Surveyor Joseph Dalton Hooker as a part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.
4 giorni fa · Equally dismissive were Sir Allen Young, a veteran of the searches for Franklin's lost expedition, and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, who had sailed to the Antarctic on the Ross expedition. Nansen still managed to secure a grant from the Norwegian parliament after an impassioned speech.
15 mag 2024 · Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first—and most successful—British men of science to become a full-time professional.
