Joseph Hooker Collection
The Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project is conserving, digitising, transcribing and making available online the personal and scientific correspondence of Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), an important - but often overlooked - 19th century naturalist and explorer.
About Joseph Hooker
Find out more about Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker - one of the most respected scientists of his day and one of the most important botanists of the 19th century.
The collection at Kew
Discover Joseph Hooker artefacts - including a lifetime of letters, hand-drawn maps, plant specimens, scientific instruments, battered travel notebooks and lively sketches of plants, people and places.
About the project
The project was conceived by staff of The University of Sussex and Kew's Library, Art and Archives department. Find out more about the scope of the project and the people involved.