The British naturalist Charles Darwin corresponded with his extended family and with an extraordinarily wide range of people from all over the world. The letters, over 15,000 in all, provide many insi
Charles Darwin in 1854
Photocopied title page of the original edition of Charles Darwin's autobiography.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was an English botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of th
Correspondence of Charles Darwin
…Albert Gaudry James Geikie Joseph Henry Gilbert Philip Henry Gosse Asa Gray* William Robert Grove Julius von Haast Ernst Haeckel John Stevens Henslow* Joseph Dalton Hooker* Thomas Henry Huxley* Thomas Jamieson Leonard Jenyns Charles Kingsley James Lamont Ray Lankester John Lubbock* Charles Lyell* Maxwell T. Masters Patrick…
Hooker in 1897
Daguerreotype of Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
Frances Harriet Henslow, by William Edward Kilburn
Tibet and Cholamo Lake from the summit of the Donkia Pass, looking North West from Hooker's Himalayan Journals. Hooker reached the pass on 7 November 1849.