Later William Mair found the tree, and he eventually succeeded in procuring specimens of the leaves and fruit, which were forwarded to Dr Joseph Hooker at Kew.

Hooker also reported having eaten some soup that had been made with Kerguelen cabbage, and described the raw leaves as tasting like cress, the boiled leaves as tasting like " stale " ( i. e., dried-out ) cabbage, and the root as tasting like horseradish.

Several failed projects such as the Rainbow Centre Factory Outlet, Niagara Falls Convention and Civic Center, the Native American Cultural Center, the Hooker Chemical ( later the Occidental Petroleum ) Headquarters building, the Wintergarden, the Fallsville Splash Park, Aquafalls, a multi-story parking ramp, an enclosed pedestrian walkway / bridge, the Falls Street Faire / Falls Street Station amusement complexes, parts of the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the Mayor E. Dent Lackey Plaza closed within twenty years of their construction.

In the agreement signed on April 28, 1953, Hooker included a seventeen-line caveat that explained the dangers of building on the site.

Hooker built a single story lava rock office building in Danner about 1915.

The Dominion Architect responsible for the building was Edgar Lewis Horwood Proposed and designed by John S. Plaskett in 1910 with the support of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research, when the 72-inch aperture telescope was constructed, it was planned to be the largest telescope in the world but delays meant it saw first light after the Hooker 100-inch telescope.

Hooker Investment Corporation Limited was formed in 1958 to allow L. J. Hooker to deal with a more diverse range of real estate areas including hotel and leisure, music, land and building trusts, pastoral holdings and housing and land subdivision.

In front of the building is an equestrian statue of General Joseph Hooker.

In the building booms of the late 1950s, Hooker Rex Pty Ltd proposed redeveloping the Dress Circle Estate.

He was buried in the Hooker family plot at Riverside Cemetery, Farmington, Connecticut, next to his wife.

They next rented a villa in Sandown and Darwin pressed on, with the facts he felt necessary to support his " abstract " expanding far beyond the thirty pages Hooker had originally suggested.

During the next four years, Hooker divided his time between two major activities – investments and planning to run for governor again in 1970.

Hooker then used the Orpheus as the basis of an experimental vectored-thrust engine for VTOL aircraft, at that time considered by most to be the next big thing in aircraft design.

At the last minute, late in the evening of 30 June, Lyell and Hooker forwarded the Wallace and Darwin papers to the Secretary John Joseph Bennett, to be read at the meeting the next day.

Hooker was mortally wounded the next day during capture.

Hooker, aggressive and inspiring to his men, left the battle early in the morning with a foot wound.

On the morning of the 29th he acknowledged Hooker's letters, writing " I cannot think now ", then that night he read the letters, and though " quite prostrated ", got his servant to take to Hooker Wallace's essay, the letter to Asa Gray and the Essay of 1844, leaving matters in the hands of Lyell and Hooker.

In 1979, Hooker arranged for the sale of The Tennessean newspaper to Gannett, which had earlier purchased the Banner but preferred to own morning rather than evening papers.

On the morning of September 17, 1862, the I Corps under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker attacked from the north, parallel to the Hagerstown Turnpike, smashing into the Confederate left flank.

The night before the sting, Hooker sleeps with Loretta, a waitress at a local restaurant.

The black-gloved man appears behind Hooker and shoots Loretta dead, later revealing her to be " Loretta Salino ", Lonnegan's hired killer.

On May 1, Hooker advanced from Chancellorsville toward Lee, but the Confederate general split his army in the face of superior numbers, leaving a small force at Fredericksburg to deter Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick from advancing, while he attacked Hooker's advance with about 4 / 5ths of his army.

Gen. Hooker had ordered Pleasonton to " disperse and destroy " the Confederate cavalry near Culpeper, Virginia, but Pleasonton claimed that he had only been ordered to make a " reconnaissance in force toward Culpeper ", thus rationalizing his actions.

Franklin had been a staunch supporter of George B. McClellan and refused to serve under Hooker, because he disliked him personally and also because he was senior to Hooker in rank.

He accepted only when it was made clear to him that McClellan would be replaced in any event and that an alternative choice for command was Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, whom Burnside disliked and distrusted.

Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “ the big con .” Unfortunately, their victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.

Meanwhile, Snyder has tracked Hooker to Chicago, but his pursuit is thwarted when he is summoned by undercover FBI agents led by Agent Polk, who orders him to assist in their scheme to arrest Gondorff using Hooker.

Shortly thereafter, Snyder captures Hooker and brings him before FBI Agent Polk.

William Jackson Hooker, who was Garden Director and Professor of Botany, was greatly impressed with him and took him on an expedition to the Highlands before recommending him to the Royal Horticultural Society of London.

Hooker recommended Douglas to London's Royal Horticultural Society, which then sent him on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest in 1824 that ranks among the great botanical explorations of a heroic generation.

" Also, according to Julian himself, his grandfather took him to visit J. D. Hooker at Kew.

While most of his siblings supported him, Isabella Beecher Hooker openly supported one of his accusers.

Lincoln chose the latter option on January 26 and replaced him with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, one of the officers who had conspired against Burnside.

Hooker began to pursue Lee at the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, but his poor performance at Chancellorsville prompted Abraham Lincoln to relieve him from command just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.

For the important position of chief of staff, Hooker asked the War Department to send him Brig.

The flanking march went well enough, achieving strategic surprise, but Hooker somehow lost his nerve when the first reports of enemy contact reached him on May 1, 1863.

Robert E. Lee once again began an invasion of the North, in June 1863, and Lincoln urged Hooker to pursue and defeat him.

Robert E. Lee occasionally referred to him as " Mr. F. J. Hooker " in a mildly sarcastic jab at his opponent.

There is an equestrian statue of General Hooker outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston, and Hooker County in Nebraska is named for him.

Hooker disagreed with this limitation of suffrage, putting him at odds with the influential pastor John Cotton.

Captain Jack successfully avoided the Army until a number of Modoc agreed to hunt him down and turn him in ; these men included Hooker Jim, Bogus Charley, Shacknasty Jim and Steamboat Frank.