Flora Indica by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson - 9781108037495

Flora IndicaBeing a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India, Together with Observations on the Structure and Affinities of their Natural Order and Genera\nAuthor(s): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108037495, 978-1108037495\nSynopsis\nSir Joseph Hooker [tel] was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the nineteenth century. He succeeded his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker, as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close friend and supporter of Charles Darwin. His journey to the Himalayas and India, during which he collected some 7,000 species, was undertaken between 1847 and 1851 to increase the Kew collections; his account of the expedition (also reissued in this series) was dedicated to Darwin. In 1855 he published Flora Indica with his fellow-traveller Thomas Thomson, who became Superintendent of the East Indi.