Manuscript index to periodicals with which Sir William Hooker was associated, circa 1877.

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Manuscript index to periodicals with which Sir William Hooker was associated, circa 1877.

Alphabetical index of six late nineteenth-century botanical journals that were associated with Sir William Hooker and the Royal Gardens, Kew. Journals are indexed by species, author, title, and region. Journals indexed include Botanical Miscellany, 1830-1833; Companion to the Botanical Magazine, 1835-1836; Hooker's Journal of Botany, 1834-1842; London Journal of Botany, 1842-1848; Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, 1849-1859; and Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Companion to the Botanical Magazine, 1845-1848.

1 volume (unpaged) ; 22 centimeters.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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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 ...