Joseph Dalton Hooker

In 1869, 10 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote to his close friend, the great botanist Joseph Hooker, as follows: "If I lived twenty more years and was able to work, how I should have to modify the Origin,...

In this article: Voyage of the Beagle, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The Descent of Man, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Joseph Hooker, Royal Institution, and London

...earlier this year, felt beset by other conundrums about the natural world. In 1879, he wrote a letter to his friend Dr Joseph Hooker, the director of Kew Gardens, complaining about the "abominable mystery" posed by one of the most common...

In this article: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Maize, Potato, Mango, Digitalis, University of Florida, and Theodosius Dobzhansky

...Hyacinth Jardine (1842-1921), daughter of William Samuel Symonds and the widow of Sir William Jardine . They had two sons: Joseph Hooker died in his sleep at midnight at home on 10 December 1911 after a short and apparently minor illness. The...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Glasgow University, British Museum, Royal Society, Richard Owen, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Jackson Hooker, and George Bentham

...in Chiswick. In 1878 he was appointed to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew where he received a training in botany under Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. In 1879 he worked for a year in the Harvard University botanic gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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..., gave the researchers their clue. In another famous letter sent in 1871 to his friend, the English botanist and explorer Joseph D. Hooker, Charles Darwin imagines a small, warm pool where the inanimate matter would arrange itself into...

In this article: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Joseph D. Hooker, Ernst Haeckel, Alfred Russel Wallace, Valencia, London, and Washington

...are deeply sobering. At the end of one of the film's finest pieces of dialogue, Darwin's closest friend Joseph Hooker pleads with him, "All of us [scientists] are fighting the same battle - you could win it for us." And yet, 150 years...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, God, Randal Keynes, Paul Bettany, Joseph Hooker, Jennifer Connelly, Evolution, and Bulldog

...on 29 April 1851 (letter 1425). He writes, "I understand well your words: 'wherever I go, she is there'" to his friend and colleague Joseph Hooker in October 1863 (letter 4318). For Annie's death marking the final separation of Darwin...

In this article: Charles Darwin, Nature, Paul Bettany, Evolution, God, Olivia Judson, and Creation

...the rise of evolutionary theory traces the lives and travels of four titans of nineteenth-century biology: Darwin, the botanist Joseph Hooker, the physiologist Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russel Wallace, a fearless globetrotter whose dangerous...

In this article: E mail, Eric Holder, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker, and Alfred Russel Wallace

...important changes in the history of the biosphere of our earth Ecologist Frank Berendse In a later letter to botanist Joseph Hooker, head of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Darwin described it as an 'abominable mystery'. The great...

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...to form in her mind. Later that year, while waiting for a train at Shrewsbury station, she wrote to Sir Joseph Hooker asking whether he would accept her paintings as a gift to Kew. She was, she explained, prepared to build a gallery at her...

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