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Science 7 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5903, p. 860
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165855
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Kingdom of Plants

John C. Waller

Imperial Nature
Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science
by Jim Endersby
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 441 pp. $35, £18. ISBN 9780226207919.
Placing the life and work of the botanist Joseph Hooker in the context of his time, Endersby considers such aspects as the transition from amateurs to professionals, empire, and the philosophical practices of 19th-century science.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, 301 Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. E-mail: wallerj1{at}msu.edu

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