Books by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the most eminent botanists of the later nineteenth century and an important supporter and correspondent of Charles Darwin. This volume of the 1918 standard biography includes many letters to Darwin in which the two men debated the theory of natural selection.

Compiled by the celebrated Victorian botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker, this two-volume catalogue of flora in New Zealand was the first major study of plant life of the area. First published in 1867, Volume 2 continues Hooker's meticulous description and categorization of New Zealand flora.

Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. His journey to Northern India, the Himalayas, Nepal and Tibet was undertaken between 1847 and 1851 to collect some 7,000 specimens for the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an eminent British botanist best known for expanding and developing the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. First published in 1903, this volume by his son Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) provides an intimate biography of Hooker's life and works.