ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEw. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 1.] [1912. 
I.—SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER. 
1817-1911. 
Kew lies, at the beginning of the year, under the shadow of a 
great sorrow. The veteran Sir Joseph Hooker, Assistant Director 
during the decade 1855-1865 and Director in the two decades 
1865-1885, died at his residence, The Camp, near Sunningdale, in 
his ninety-fifth year, at midnight on Sunday, 10th December, 1911. 
Born at Halesworth in Suffolk on 30th June, 1817, Joseph 
Dalton Hooker was the second son of William Jackson Hooker 
and his wife Maria Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Dawson Turner, 
F.R.S., Norwich. His father, at the time of Hooker’s birth, was 
the managing partner of a business which he had been induced to 
enter in 1809 along with Mr. Turner, whose daughter he married 
in 1815, and Mr. Paget of Yarmouth, father of the late Sir James 
Paget, Bart. To so enthusiastic a naturalist and author as the 
elder Hooker the occupation at Halesworth was not altogether 
congenial, Towards the end of 1819 he expressed to his friend 
Sir Joseph Banks a desire to find some position in which his 
already remarkable and extensive knowledge of botany could be 
turned to account. Sir Joseph Banks suggested as a suitable 
Situation the Professorship of Botany in the University of Glasgow, 
which had just become vacant. ooker’s father accepted this 
suggestion, and in February, 1820, he was appointed by the Crown 
to the Glasgow chair in succession to Professor Graham, who ha 
been transferred to Edinburgh. He entered upon his duties in 
May, and the impression which he created may Bier ae be best 
estimated by a remark made in July by Francis Hamilton, one of 
the ablest and shrewdest men of his time, regarding “ the Botanical 
Garden at Glasgow, where there has been lately appoin a 
Sek likely to be somewhat distinguished.” Professor W. J. 
ooker occupied the Glasgow chair until 1841, when he was 
appointed Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. His son Joseph 
was therefore educated in Glasgow, passing through the High 
School to the University, where he attended some of the classes in 
the Faculty of Arts before proceeding to those in the Medical 
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