Joseph Hooker Burke letters to Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1843-1847.

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Joseph Hooker Burke letters to Sir William Jackson Hooker, 1843-1847.

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Concerning botanical explorations in Canada, the old Oregon country, Utah, Montana, and Nevada, in 1843-1846; also five letters from Alexander Gordon to Hooker mainly concerning his collecting activities with Sir William Drummond Stewart's excursion to the Rocky Mountains in 1843.

1 microfilm reel (114 exposures) : negative (Rich. 694:8, duplicate for security copy) and positive.

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Burke, Joseph Hooker.

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Gordon, Alexander, 1802-1868

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Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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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 ...

Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 1796-1871

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