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Doctorate Botany University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Sir 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.

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William Jackson Hooker's Published Works

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The Journal of Botany (1834) (64)
The British flora (35)
The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition during the voyage to the Pacific and Bering's Strait, performed in His Majesty's Ship Blos (25)
A manual of scientific enquiry (21)
Hooker's journal of botany and Kew Garden miscellany (20)
Flora boreali-Americana, or, The botany of the northern parts of British America (20)
The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya : (19)
Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences (18)
The paradisus londinensis:or coloured figures of plants cultivated in the vicinity of the metropolis /by William Hooker ... (11)
Musci exotici : containing figures and descriptions of new or little known foreign mosses and other cryptogamic subjects (11)
The Paradisus Londinensis (10)
Hooker's icones plantarum ; or figures with brief descriptive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from the Kew Herbarium (10)
Synopsis filicum, or, a synopsis of all known ferns : including the Osmundaceæ, Schizæaceæ, Marattiaceæ, and Ophioglossaceæ (chiefly derived from the Kew Herbarium), accompanied by figures representing the essential characters of each genus (8)
Synopsis filicum; or, A synopsis of all known ferns, including the Osmundaceae, Schizaeaceae, Marattiaceae, and Ophioglossaceae (chiefly derived from the Kew herbarium) Accompanied by figures representing the essential (8)
Muscologia britannica containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland systematically arranged and described with plates illustrative of the characters of the genera and species / by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Taylor. (7)
Species filicum; being descriptions of the known ferns, particularly of such as exist in the author's herbarium, or are with sufficient accuracy described in works to which he has had access; accompanied with numerous by Sir William Jackson Hooker. (7)
Species Filicum Vol I (7)
XXIV. Musci Nepalenses; or Descriptions of several new Mosses from Nepal. (1808) (5)
Species filicum; being descriptions of the known ferns, particularly of such as exist in the author's herbarium, or are with sufficient accuracy described in works to which he has had access; accompanied with numerous figures / (4)
The British flora : comprising the phaenogamous or flowering plants, and the ferns (4)
The English flora of Sir James Edward Smith : class XXIV. cryptogamia (4)
A second century of ferns : being figures with brief descriptions of one hundred new, or rare, or imperfectly known species of ferns : from various parts of the world (3)
Muscologia Britannica : containing the mosses of Great Britain & Ireland (2)
Schultes's botanical visit to England, 1824 (2)
Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods : in two parts / by William Jackson Hooker ... (2)
XLVIII.—On the Erythræa diffusa, Woods (Gentiana scilloides, Linn. fil.). (With some remarks on the genus. By Dr. Griesbach (1838) (1)
Bryologia britannica : containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, systematically arranged and described according to the method of Bruch and Schimper (1)
An introduction to the study of botany (1)
A century of ferns; being figures with brief descriptions of one hundred new, or rare, or imperfectly known species of ferns, from various parts of the world; a selection from the author's "Icones plantarum," (1)
The London journal of botany (1)
XX. Some Observations on the Genus Andræa; with Descriptions of four British Species. (1811) (1)
Pomona Londinensis: Containing Colored Engravings Of The Most Esteemed Fruits Cultivated In The British Gardens, With A Descriptive Account Of Each Variety / Hooker, William. - London : Harding, 1818 ; Vol. 1 (1)
XXXVII.—Description of two new orchideous plants, from the collection of C. S. Parker, Esq. (1)
Description of Victoria regia, or, Great water-lily of South America (with four plates) / (0)
Handbook to the ferns of New Zealand : chiefly compiled from Dr. Hooker's "Flora Novae Zealandiae," Sir Wm. J. Hooker's "Species Filicum," &c. (0)
A century of orchidaceous plants selected from Curtis's botanical magazine (0)
Garden ferns; or, coloured figures and descriptions : with the needful analyses of the fructification and venation, of a selection of exotic ferns adapted for cultivation in the garden, hothouse, and conservatory (0)
XXI. Some Account of a Collection of Arctic Plants formed by Edward Sabine, Esq., F.R.S. and L.S., Captain in the Royal Artillery, during a Voyage in the Polar Seas in the Year 1823. (1824) (0)
A second century of ferns : being figures withbrief descriptions of one hundred new, or rare, or imperfectly known species offerns ... A selection from the auth.'s 'Icones plantarum.' (0)
Exotic flora,containing figures and descriptions of new, rare or otherwise interesting exotic plants...with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural orders, history, culture, time of flowering, &c.By William Jackson Hooker... (0)
The British flora : in two volumes (0)
IX.—Information respecting botanical travellers (1838) (0)
The British flora : comprising the phaenogamous, or flowering plants and the ferns / by Sir William Jackson Hooker. (0)
William Jackson Hooker letters to Asa Gray (0)
The Late Dr Scouler (1872) (0)
Icones Plantarum: DIPLAZITUM (Oxygonium) ELEGANS (0)
The Straits of Niagara engraved for Darby's Tour (0)
Handbook to the ferns of New Zealand (0)
Filices exoticæ : or, Coloured figures and descriptions of exotic ferns : chiefly of such as are cultivated in the Royal gardens of Kew (0)
Nitrate of Silver in Inflammations of the Throat (1859) (0)

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