Joseph Dalton Hooker | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:00:32 1 Biography
00:00:42 1.1 Early years
00:02:07 1.2 Marriages and children
00:04:00 1.3 Death and burial
00:04:55 2 Work
00:05:04 2.1 Voyage to the Antarctic 1839–1843
00:08:36 2.2 Geological Survey of Great Britain
00:10:37 2.3 Voyage to the Himalayas and India 1847–1851
00:15:57 2.4 Voyage to Palestine 1860
00:16:36 2.5 Voyage to Morocco 1871
00:17:00 2.6 Voyage to Western United States 1877
00:20:52 2.7 Darwin and evolution
00:24:47 2.8 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
00:28:09 2.8.1 Attacks on Hooker and on Kew
00:34:00 3 Honours  and commemoration
00:35:03 3.1 Taxa named in honour
00:35:48 4 Selected publications
00:38:47 5 See also



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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker  (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.