Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. 2 Volume Set
Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I. 2 Volume Set
Leonard Huxley
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exc GSTSir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was one of the most eminent botanists of the later nineteenth century. Educated at Glasgow, he developed his studies of plant life by examining specimens all over the world. After several successful scientific expeditions, first to the Antarctic and later to India, he was appointed to succeed his father as Director of the Botanical Gardens at Kew. Hooker was the first to hear of and support Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, and over their long friendship the two scientists exchanged many letters. Another close friend was the scientist T. H. Huxley, and it was the latter's son, Leonard (1860–1933), who published this standard biography in 1918. The first volume describes Hooker's early life and his career up to 1860, and the second his management of Kew, his later travels, and the end of his long life.
Product details
June 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108031028
1166 pages
217 × 140 × 68 mm
1.58kg
9 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Early days
- 2. The Antarctic voyage: preliminaries
- 3. The southern journey and its scientific scope
- 4. The voyage of the Erebus and Terror: passing impressions
- 5. Tasmania and the Antarctic
- 6. South again: New Zealand and the Cape
- 7. The Antarctic voyage: personal
- 8. Return to England: and visit to Paris
- 9. Edinburgh
- 10. The Geological Survey
- 11. The voyage to India
- 12. Journey to the Kymore Hills
- 13. To Darjiling: the first Himalayan journey
- 14. The second Himalayan journey
- 15. Captivity and release
- 16. Last days in Sikkim
- 17. To the Khasia Mountains
- 18. The return from India
- 19. Botany: its position and prospects in the fifties
- 20. Science teaching: examinations
- 21. Science organisation: societies, journals, and rewards
- 22. Miscellaneous, 1850–60
- 23. Letters to Darwin, 1843–59
- 24. On species
- 25. The making of the 'Origin': science and friendship
- 26. Publication of the 'Origin' and the 'Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora'
- 27. The journey to Palestine and the work of 1860. Volume 2:
- 28. Economic botany and the new floras
- 29. Scientific work, 1860–5
- 30. 1860–5: personal
- 31. Kew, St. Petersburg, and Marocco
- 32. Darwinian interests
- 33. The presidency of the Royal Society
- 34. The presidency (continued)
- 35. The Ayrton episode
- 36. Life and friendship at Kew
- 37. Loss and gain
- 38. America: and geographical distribution
- 39. End of the presidential term (1877–8)
- 40. Kew:
- 1879–85
- 41. Retirement, to 1897: botanical work
- 42. Retirement, to 1897: Darwiniana and other scientific interests
- 43. Retirement, to 1897: of books and opinions
- 44. Miscellaneous letters:
- 1886–97
- 45. The 'Lion' letters
- 46. Final botanical work
- 47. Further problems of economic botany
- 48. Hooker's position as botanist F. O. Bower
- 49. Personalia:
- 1898–1906
- 50. The last years
- Appendices
- Index.
