Species-Mongers
Steven Shapin: Joseph Hooker and the Dead Foreign Weeds, 20 November 2008
Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science
by Jim Endersby.
Chicago, 429 pp., £18, May 2008,978 0 226 20791 9 Show More
by Jim Endersby.
Chicago, 429 pp., £18, May 2008,
“... from his return until practically the dawn of the 20th century. It was through work like this, Jim Endersby writes, that botany emerged as ‘one of the great imperial sciences’. That wasn’t the end of Hooker’s botanical travels: later trips took him to Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco and, at the age of 60, to the United States, from which ... ”
