Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865
William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became a leading botanical institution under his guidance. He was the key figure in English botanical studies in his day, and his legacy remains alive in the Kew Gardens complex.
From the description of W.J. Hooker letter to My dear sir, 1809 Nov. 15. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 60494885
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