Talk:Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Add external link

Please add a link to <http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk>, which is editing and publishing all of the correspondence of Charles Darwin. Hooker was a significant correspondent of Darwin. Eadp 14:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added link to the project website. A substantial link indeed. (Gowron)

Broken bibliograpy link

Footnote 15 leads to a sporting goods website — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.29.96.66 (talk) 19:26, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, I've removed the link. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:13, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford debate

"According to some contemporary accounts, notably Hooker's own" - and also according to the quasi-official account: Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, New Series, 12: 275-277, of which Hooker's defense makes up about half. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 11:31, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We've been round this many times in different articles, especially in Thomas Henry Huxley. A consideration of all sources does tend to support the traditional account, though it is correct that Hooker made his claim as the article says (Lucas leaves out one critical account, and has been challenged by Jensen). I will put in more sources rather than make too much of it here. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ascension Island

This addition recounting the part Hooker (and Darwin) played in changing the ecology of Ascension Island may be of interest, but not sure if it's rather too detailed for this article. . . dave souza, talk 18:45, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seal of secrecy

Exciting stuff, rather like Thurber's "All Right, Have It Your Way—You Heard a Seal Bark", but 1902 scholarship about the war between science and religion is rather outdated. As van Wyhe notes, Darwin told many people about his theorising. "The only one of these people who was asked to keep it to himself, as far as we know, was Gray in America. We know that Darwin told a number of people whom he hardly knew. He had been corresponding with the botanist J. D. Hooker for only two months when the latter was told about the theory." . . dave souza, talk 21:08, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Tone concerns, especially in the Kew section

I'm not sure what to make of the tone of parts of this article. For example, in the "Attacks on Hooker and Kew" sub-section the text seems to be taken or paraphrased from a work on the history of Kew, and the context is either missing or perhaps not phrased appropriately to a biographical entry on Hooker. E.g.: "One extraordinary fact emerged." and "From that moment to this, the value of the Botanic Gardens has never been seriously questioned." There is also a bit of point of view evident in the section, bordering on hagiography. Is it non-neutral, or just a matter of style? Thomas Craven (talk) 18:15, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]