Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker CB, MD, FRS
Born	1817
Died	1911
Residence	Kew
Occupation	academic
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1872.02.05 resignation received and accepted elected_ESL 1868.11.10 elected_AI 1868 clubs X Club Athenaeum Club societies Royal Society

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Director of the Royal Gardens

TES vol. 5 1867 p. 225 ...Dr Hooker informs me that though there is much variation, still this calculation is on the safe side [On the flint implements recently discovered at Pressigny-le-Grand by Prof. Steenstrup and John Lubbock]
TES vol. 6 1868 p. 116 ... whilst several may probably not unfrequently poison the hungry savage who resorts to them, as Hooker tells me is frequently the case .... [Food of the natives of Australia by J. Crawfurd]
JES vol. 1 no. 1 1869 p. ix ... Mar. 23 An account of the Lepchas by Dr Hooker [Report of the Council of the Ethnological Society of London May 1869]
AR vol. 7 no. 27 Oct. 1869, p. 414 Vice Presidents. - ... Dr Hooker ... [Anthropology at the British Association, 1869]
JES meeting 25 Jan 1870 Dr Hooker, CB, exhibited a collection of figures in unburnt clay modelled by a native Zulu, and sent to this country by J. Sanderson, Esq.
mentioned in article Use of the New-Zealand Mere by Col. Lane Fox JES vol. 2. no. 2 p. 107
JES vol. 2 no. 1 1870 p. 81 ...With reference to this subject it is interesting to learn, as I have from Dr Hooker, that the Tibetans at the present day use human skulls divided as the present one is, as a sort of drum ... [On an ancient calvaria from China by G. Busk]
JES vol. 2 no. 3 1870, p. 266 ... In June 1866, however, Sir Roderick wrote to me that he had heard from Dr Hooker that they had been successfully raised at Kew ... [On the Aymara Indians of Bolivia and Peru by David Forbes]
JAI Vol. 1 No. 3 Jan 1871 p. 293 ...Dr Hooker, indeed, to whom I am under obligations for information kindly afforded me, found a number of sepulchral monuments, arranged in a kind of large circle, at Nurtiung ... [Notes on the builders and the purposes of megalithic monuments by A.L. Lewis]
JAI vol. 1 1872, p. 123 ... Dr Hooker also alluded to the Khasias at the meeting of the British Association at Norwich in 1868 ... [On the stone monuments of the Khasi hill tribes ... by H.H. Godwin-Austen]
JAI vol. 2 1873, p. 295 ... Dr Hooker has pointed out that the problem connected with the Arctic flora can probably be solved only by a study of the physical conditions of much higher latitudes than have hitherto been explored ... [Report of the Arctic Committee of the AI]
JAI vol. 2 1873, p. 358 ... Among the Members of the Institute present at the meeting who took part in the discussions were ... Dr Hooker ... [Report on Anthropology at the meeting of the BAAS for 1872 at Brighton by A. Lane Fox]
JAI vol. 2 1873 p. 388 ... Dr Campbell had borrowed the vase for this occasion from Dr Hooker, to whom it had been brought from Calcutta by Dr King, Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens there ... [The origin of serpent-worship by C. Staniland Wake; discussion]
JAI vol. 4 1875 p. 324 ...Dr Hooker on the following day delivered his discourse to the Department of Zoology and Botany ... [Report on the department of anthropology at the Belfast meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1874 by F.W. Rudler]
JAI vol. 5 1876 p. 39 ... Dr Hooker, in his account of his trips to the Kollong Rock, did not fail to notice them ... [Further notes on the rude stone monuments of the Khasi hill tribes by H.H. Godwin-Austen]
JAI vol. 6 1877 p. 192 ... I shall ever be grateful to Dr Hooker for having found me so valuable a servant as Arthur Freeman. He was under Dr Hooker at Kew for two or three years, and will be the botanical collector and registrar of the meterological instruments during our travels...[Anthropological Miscellanea: letter received by the President from Mr Louis Lucas, 11 March 1876]
JAI vol. 7 1878, p. 385 ... he was detained in durance for six weeks, with his companion, Dr Hooker, from which he suffered greatly.. [Life and labours of the late Dr Archibald Campbell]
JAI vol. 11 1882 p. 124 ... Museums and collections which have been at my disposal ... Sir Joseph Hooker's collection, with references to private letters ... [The stone age of South Africa by W.D. Gooch]
JAI vol. 12 1883. p. 229 ... He was, however, ever ready to give them the benefit of his counsel, as he (the speaker) remembered when the friends and associates of Darwin on the Council of the Ethnological Society - ... Sir Joseph Hooker ... [The death of Mr Darwin]
JAI vol. 13 1884, p. 30 Mr Thiselton Dyer sent the following communication in explanation ... in a letter addressed to Sir Joseph Hooker, in 1880, Mr H.O. Forbes wrote from Sumatra... [On the ethnology of Timor-Laut]
JAI vol. 13 1884 p. 248 ... Sir Joseph D. Hooker has a ring of gold in the shape of a lizard, with green enamel on the body, which was found in a tomb in the north-east of Antioquia [Notes on the Aboriginal races of the north-western provinces of South America by R.B. White]
JAI vol. 29 no. 3/4 1899, p. 316 Sir Joseph Hooker was deputed by the subscribers to transfer the statue to his Royal Highness ... [The Huxley memorial statue in the Natural History Museum]

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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB 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

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1851

Publications

House Publications

On childbirth ceremonies in Australia and New Zealand JES vol. 1 no. 1 1869
Opinon on Col. Lane Fox's bronze spear JES Vol. 1 no. 1 1869
Remarks, by Dr Hooker, on Dr Campbell's paper JES vol. 1 no. 3 1869 p. 217