Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker Collection

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin
This emperor penguin, one of the earliest to come to Britain, was one of the many specimens collected by James Clark Ross Antarctic expedition between 1839 and 1843

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)
Youngest son of the botanist and professor William Jackson Hooker. Joseph Dalton Hooke, became an established botanist, plant collector and traveller

Eucalyptus urnigera, eucalyptus
Plate from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Erebus and Terror. Part III: Flora Tasmaniae. by J. D. Hooker, 1860

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. R. S. (1817-1911)
Portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, an English botanist and traveller. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Cladhymenia oblongifolia
Plate CXXVII from The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, Volume 2 (1847), by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Matilda Smith (1854-1926)
Cousin of Joseph Hooker, the creator of the Botanical magazine and son of William Hooker (establisher of worldwide communications and correspondence system for collectors)

Octopus illustration
Plate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library

Antarctic fish illustration
Watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from his Drawings of Antartic Fish, 1889. Plate no 12

Rhododendron sp. rhododendron
Plate 30 from The Rhododendrons (1818) by Joseph Hooker (1817-1911). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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