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Joseph Hooker: the making of a botanist

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posted on 2023-06-08, 08:38 authored by Jim EndersbyJim Endersby
Joseph Hooker became one of the most influential botanists of his day. He is best remembered as a friend of Charles Darwin and an early advocate of natural selection. However, aft-er returning to Britain from his first major voyage, Hooker spent years struggling to find a paid position that would allow him to pursue his studies of plant classification and distribution. As he worked to establish himself, he also helped transform the status of botany as a discipline. In all his efforts, Hooker relied on a network of unpaid, colonial collectors, whose often-forgotten contributions to Victorian natural history are vital to the understanding of the professionalisation of the sciences in the 19th century.

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Endeavour

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0160-9327

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Elsevier

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1

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25

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3-7

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  • History Publications

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2012-02-06

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