"From having no Herbarium." Local Knowledge versus Metropolitan Expertise: Joseph Hooker's Australasian Correspondence with William Colenso and Ronald Gunn. (1).(botanist)(Museums and the Cultivation of Knowledge in the Pacific)

Pacific Science | October 1, 2001| | Copyright

Jim Endersby (2)

Abstract: Between 1844 and 1860, Joseph Dalton Hooker published a series of major floras of the southern oceans, including the first floras of Tasmania and New Zealand. These books were essential to establishing his scientific reputation. However, despite having visited the countries he described, Hooker relied on a large network of unpaid, colonial collectors to supply him with specimens. A study of his relationship with two of these collectors--Ronald Campbell Gunn and William Colenso--reveals warm friendships but also complex negotiations over ...

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