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CONTACT:kate@linnean.org
ORGANIZER:Linnean Society of London
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DESCRIPTION:Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)\, friend and scientific co
 nfidant of Charles Darwin\, lectured in 1866 on “Insular floras” at the
  Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
 His interest and knowledge of islands had been aroused when he travelled to
  the Antarctic aboard the Erebus under Sir James Clark Ross. On his return\
 , Darwin passed on to Hooker the botanical collections he had made on the B
 eagle voyage. Hooker’s conclusions from these and his own material and ex
 periences were important to Darwin as he developed his own ideas. The 1866 
 lecture provided a focus for subsequent and informative studies on evolutio
 n\, and islands continue to provide invaluable natural laboratories for evo
 lutionary biology and genetics. 
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SUMMARY:The Hooker Lecture: Hooker and Islands
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CREATED:20080213T111954
DTSTAMP:20080705T174041
LOCATION:Linnean Society of London Burlington House 
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