Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India, Together with Observations on the Structure and Affinities

by Thomas Thomson and Joseph Dalton Hooker

Book Overview

Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108037496
• ISBN13: 9781108037495
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"