Joseph Dalton Hooker English botanist c Hooker was a botanist and plant collector who travelled on several scientific expeditions in the s including a three year trip to the Himalayas in He brought back specimens from the expedition Amongst these were new species of rhododendron half as many again as were then known leading to something of a rhododendron craze amongst British gardeners In Hooker became Assistant Director of Kew and took over the post of Director from his father Sir William Hooker in From Men of Mark London
