Botanical illustration exhibition toasts bicentenary of explorer and scientist Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) is remembered for his directorship of Kew Gardens, his close friendship with Charles Darwin, and the more than 30 plants with the specific name ‘hookeri’ and ‘hookeriana’ in his honour.
This July, in recognition of the bicentenary of Hooker’s birth, the students of the Chelsea School o…