William Jackson Hooker

Sir William Jackson Hooker (July 6, 1785 - August 12, 1865) was an English botanist.

Other works

Hooker prepared or edited many works, the more important being the following:

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• Botanical Illustrations (1822)
• Exotic Flora, indicating such of the specimens as are deserving cultivation (3 vols., 1822-1827)
• Account of Sabine's Arctic Plants (1824)
• Catalogue of Plants in the Glasgow Botanic Garden (1825)
• the Botany of Parry's Third Voyage (1826)
• The Botanical Magazine (38 vols,, 1827-1865)
• Icones Filicum, in concert with Dr R. K. Greville (2 vols., 1829-1831)
• British Flora, of which several editions appeared, undertaken with Dr G. A. W. Arnott, &c. (1830)
• British Flora Cryptogamia (1833)
• Characters of Genera from the British Flora (1830)
• Flora Boreali-Americana (2 vols., 1840), being the botany of British North America collected in Sir John Franklin's voyage
• The Journal of Botany (4 vols., 1830-1842)
• Companion to the Botanical Magazine (2 vols., 1835-1836)
• Icones plantarum (10 vols., 1837-1854)
• the Botany of Beechey's Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits (with Dr Arnott, 1841)
• the Genera Fiticum (1842), from the original colored drawings of F. Bauer, with additions and descriptive letterpress
• The London Journal of Botany (7 vols., 1842-1848)
• Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of the Erebus and Terror (1843)
• Species filicum (5 vols., 1846-1864), the standard work on this subject
• A Century of Orchideae (1846)
• Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany (9 vols., 1849-1857)
• Niger Flora (1849)
• Victoria Regia (1851)
• Museums of Economic Botany at Kew (1855)
• Filices exoticae (1857-1859)
• The British Ferns (1861-1862)
• A Century of Ferns (1854)
• A Second Century of Ferns (1860-1861).

The standard botanical author abbreviation Hook. is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear on this list.

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