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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens, London, 1865. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS (1817 - 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century
J. A. Simon, gardener at Kew in the 1940 s, had been a farmer in Alderney, the Channel Islands, before fleeing the German occupation in World War II
Sir William Hooker (1785-1865). Botanist, illustrator and the first public Director of Kew Gardens 1841. He also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany in Glasgow in 1820
Some of Kews female staff, 1942Some of Kews female staff are shown here in 1942. Back row (l to r) Jessie F Pedgrift, Violet M Clark, Jean E Sharps, Freda Mundy
Female gardener, RBG Kew, World War IIPreparing terracotta pots for planting. Women gardeners were employed at Kew during World War II, after an interval of nearly a quarter of a century
Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron. The photograph is signed by Darwin with the inscription " I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been
Miss Cotton posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Kew Gardens, 1923" Miss Cotton" posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Victoria amazonica, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, 1923. It is likely that she was the daughter of Arthur Cotton
Women Gardeners (drinking tea) 1939Women Gardeners (drinking tea), RBG Kew, 1939. A tea break was only instigated at Kew after Minnie Hill made a personal appeal to the director, Sir Arthur Hill
Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945Female gardener in springtime, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, WWII (1939-1945)
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, 1832Lithograph of Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761-1838) who was one of the first paleobotanists and one of the founders of the National Museum in Prague, where his collection now resides
Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, 1832Lithograph of Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761-1838) one of the first paleobotanists and one of the founders of the National Museum in Prague, where his collection now resides
Nathaniel Wallich FRS (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854)Drawn by Daniel Macnee, coloured chalk on paper, mounted on card. Illustration of Nathaniel Wallich FRS (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854) a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India
Marianne North, photographed by Julia Margaret CameronMarianne North photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron in Kalutara, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), 1877. Marianne North met Julia Cameron when she stayed at the photographers home at Kalutara
Sir Joseph Dalton HookerExposure and contrast adjusted image from an original portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Kew GardensPortrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens and his wife, Hyacinth JardineSir Joseph Dalton Hooker and wife, Hyacinth Jardine. Perhaps the only known photograph of them at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Map of Kew Gardens, 1771
Map of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1771
636. The Volcanoes of Merapi and Marbaboe, Java, from the top of Boro BodoerThe rich plain at their feet covered with morning mist; the tops of the Cocoanut groves alone showing above it, and indicating the position of the numerous native villages
92. Scotchman hugging a Creole, Brazil. 92. Scotchman hugging a Creole, BrazilA Palm in the embrace of the roots of a Fig tree. The tree that is now strangling the palm was at first the nurse child of the latter, and its history is this
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Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), wealthy philanthropist, natural history lover, patron and first unofficial director of Kew Gardens from about 1773
Joseph BanksSir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), wealthy philanthropist, natural history lover, patron and first unofficial director of Kew Gardens from about 1773
Portrait of E H WilsonErnest Henry " Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty
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