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This is Volume VIII of the so-called New Series; Volume LXI of the whole work. The editor is William Jackson Hooker; a
scientist of great repute; Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow at this time,
and, beginning in 1841, Director of the newly nationalized Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Hooker would remain as Editor until his death in 1865. For the first years of his tenure, Hooker also provided the botanical illustrations.
Under Hooker's direction, the Magazine immediately
acquired a more formidable scientific air.
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