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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Royal Gardens at Kew Product:Canvas This cartoon shows a dummySir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Royal Gardens at Kew, 1881. Hooker (1817 1911) was a botanist and plant collector who travelled on several scientific expedditions in the 1840s, including a three year trip to the Himalayas in 1848 1850. He brought back 7000 specimens from the expedition. Amongst these were 25 new species of rhododendron, half as many again as were then known, leading to something of a rhododendron craze amongst British gardeners.