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See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
HOOKER, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:JACKSON (1785–1865) , See also:English botanist, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 6th of See also:July 1785. His See also:father, See also:Joseph Hooker of See also:Exeter, a member of the same See also:family as the celebrated See also:Richard Hooker, devoted much of his timeto the study of See also:German literature and the cultivation of curious See also:plants. The son was educated at the high school of Norwich, on leaving which his See also:independent means enabled him to travel and to take up as a recreation the study of natural See also:history, especially See also:ornithology and See also:entomology. He subsequently See also:con-fined his See also:attention to See also:botany, on the recommendation of Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James E. See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, whom he had consulted respecting a rare See also:moss. His first botanical expedition was made in See also:Iceland, in the summer of 1809, at the See also:suggestion of Sir Joseph See also:Banks; but the natural history specimens which he collected, with his notes and drawings, were lost on the homeward voyage through the burning of the See also:ship, and the See also:young botanist himself had a narrow See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape with his See also:life. A See also:good memory, however, aided him to publish an See also:account of the See also:island, and of its in-
habitants and See also:flora (Tour in Iceland, 18o9), privately circulated in 1811, and reprinted in 1813. In 18ro–1811 he made extensive preparations, and sacrifices which proved financially serious, with a view to accompany Sir R. Brownrigg to See also:Ceylon, but the disturbed See also:state of the island led to the See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment of the projected expedition. In 1814 he spent nine months in botanizing excursions in See also:France, See also:Switzerland and See also:northern See also:Italy, and in the following See also:year he married the eldest daughter of Mr See also:Dawson See also:Turner, banker, of See also:Yarmouth. Settling at Halesworth, See also:Suffolk, he devoted himself to the formation of his See also:herbarium, which became of See also:world-wide renown among botanists. In 1816 appeared the See also:British Jungermanniae, his first scientific See also:work, which was succeeded by a new edition of William See also:Curtis's Flora Londinensis, for which he wrote the descriptions (1817–'8.28); by a description of the Plantae cryptogamicae of A. von See also:Humboldt and A. Bonpiand; by the Muscologia Britannica, a very See also:complete account of the mosses of See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland, prepared in See also:conjunction with Dr T. See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (1818); and by his Musci exotici (2 vols., 1818–182o), devoted to new See also:foreign mosses and other cryptogamic plants. In 182o he accepted the regius professorship of botany in See also:Glasgow University where he soon became popular as a lecturer, his See also:style being both clear and ready. The following year he brought out the Flora Scotica, in which the natural method of arrangement of British plants was given with the artificial. Subsequently he pre-pared or edited many See also:works, the more important being the following:
Botanical Illustrations (1822) ; See also:Exotic Flora, indicating such of the specimens as are deserving cultivation (3 vols., 1822–1827) ; Account of See also:Sabine's See also:Arctic Plants (1824); See also:Catalogue of Plants in the Glasgow Botanic See also:Garden (1825) ; the Botany of See also:Parry's Third Voyage (1826) ; The Botanical See also:Magazine (38 vols., 1827–1865) ; Icones Filicum, in See also:concert with Dr R. K. Greville (2 vols., 1829–1831); British Flora, of which several See also:editions appeared, undertaken with Dr G. A. W. See also:Arnott, &c. (1830) ; British Flora Cryptogamia (1833) ; Characters of Genera from the British Flora (183o) ; Flora Boreali-Americana (2 vols., 184o), being the botany of British See also:North See also:America collected in Sir J. See also:Franklin's voyage; The See also:Journal of Botany (4 vols., 1830—1842) ; See also:Companion to the Botanical Magazine (2 vols., 1835–1836) ; Icones plantarum (to vols., 1837–1854); the Botany of See also:Beechey's Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits (with Dr Arnott, 1841); the Genera Filicum (1842), from the See also:original coloured drawings of F. See also:Bauer, with additions and descriptive letterpress; The See also:London Journal of Botany (7 vols., 1842–1848) ; Notes on the Botany of the See also:Antarctic Voyage of the See also:Erebus and Terror (1843) ; See also:Species falicum (5 vols., 1846-1864), the See also:standard work on this subject; A See also:Century of Orchideae (1846); Journal of Botany and See also:Kew Garden See also:Miscellany (9 vols., 1849–1857) See also:Niger Flora (1849) ; See also:Victoria Regia (1851) ; Museums of Economic Botany at Kew (1855); Filices exoticae (1857–1859); The British Ferns (1861–1862); A Century of Ferns (1854); A Second Century of Ferns (186o–1861).
It was mainly by Hooker's exertions that botanists were appointed to the See also:government expeditions. While his works were in progress his herbarium received large and valuable additions from all parts of the globe, and his position as a botanist was thus vastly improved. He was made a See also:knight of See also:Hanover in 1836 and in 1841 he was appointed director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, on the resignation of W. T. See also:Aiton. Under his direction the gardens See also:expanded from 1r to 75 acres, with an See also:arboretum of 270 acres, many new See also:glass-houses were erected, and a museum of economic botany was established. He was engaged on the Synopsis fi-licum,with J. G. See also:Baker
when he was attacked by a See also:throat disease then epidemic at Kew, where he died on the 12th of See also:August 1865.
End of Article: HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
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