Person
Hooker, William Jackson (1785 - 1865)
Corymbia citriodora (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson (1995), Lemon-scented Gum, 23 January 2013
Details
- Born
- 6 July 1785
Norwich, England - Died
- 12 August 1865
London, England - Occupation
- Botanic gardens director and Botanist
Summary
William Hooker was the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1841 to 1865. He assembled an herbarium of specimens from all parts of the world, and made Kew a focus for the collection of botanical specimens from Australia. His son Joseph Dalton Hooker also became a prominent botanist, succeeding William as Director of the Gardens upon his death in 1865. Between them they classified over 200 species of Tasmanian plants.
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Chronology
- 1841 - 1865
- Career position - Director, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England
- 1842
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus macrocarpa Hook.
- 1843
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus splachnicarpa Hook. (= Corymbia calophylla (Lindl.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson (1995))
- 1844
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus spathulata Hook.
- 1844
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus maculata Hook. (= Corymbia maculata (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson (1995))
- 1848
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus citriodora Hook.
- 1848
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus bicolor A.Cunn. ex Hook. (= E. largiflorens F. Muell. (1855))
- 1852
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus platypus Hook.
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. var. acuminata (Hook.) Blakely
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Linnean Society of London - Records, 1792 - 1870, FM 4/2699; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Ronald Campbell Gunn - Records, c. 1833 - c. 1854, A 316; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Herbarium, Melbourne
- William Jackson Hooker - Records, 1854 - 1863, MSS M2; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- John MacGillivray - Records, 1844 - 1855, mfm G 1881; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Community History Collection
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Galloway, David J., A Man Tenax Propositi: Transcriptions of Letters from Charles Knight to William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker Between 1852 and 1883 ([Wellington]: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2013), 88 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Cohn, Helen M., 'Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist: the role of William Hooker in his appointment', Muelleria, 7 (1989), 99-102. Details
- Hooker, W. J., 'Mr Swainson's botanical report, principally relating to the eucalypti and casuarinae of Victoria, New Holland', Hooker’s journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany, 6 (1854), 186-90. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q472639. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/46874997. Details
- Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; Voigt, J.H.; and Wells, M. [eds], The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 2023, https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/search/?correspondent=William%20Hooker. Details
- 'Hooker, William Jackson (1785-1865)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-864237. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
- Henderson, M. Helen; and Henderson, William G., The greater prize than gold: Augustus Oldfield, nineteenth century botanical collector and ethnographer (Perth, W.A.: The Book Reality Experience, 2018), 520 pp. Details
- Pybus, Cassandra, A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2024), 318 pp. https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Cassandra-Pybus-Very-Secret-Trade-9781761066344. Pages 141, 142, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 158, 159. Details
Digital resources
- Title
- Corymbia citriodora (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson (1995), Lemon-scented Gum, detail of bark
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 23 January 2013
- Place
- Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
- Title
- Corymbia citriodora (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson (1995), Lemon-scented Gum
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 23 January 2013
- Place
- Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Gavan McCarthy; Christine Moje
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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