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William Jackson Hooker

botanist

William Jackson Hooker

English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865)

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About William Jackson Hooker

William Jackson Hooker was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

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Occupation

botanist, university teacher, illustrator, pteridologist

Position held

Regius Professor of Botany

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Great Britain

Born

July 6, 1785, 1785

Died

August 12, 1865, 1865

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