Raggiunse la fama per le sue collezioni di piante del Sikkim e dell'Himalaya.
Molte piante da lui scoperte lo ricordano nel nome, come la Sarcorocca hookeriana.
The cryptogamic botany of the Antarctic voyage: Of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1943 under the command of Sir James Clark Ross
The botany [of] the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843: Under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross
(EN) Leonard Huxley e Keir B. Sterling, Life & Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Materials Collected & Arranged by Lady Hooker (Biologists & Their World Series), Arno Press, 1978, ISBN0-405-10726-9.
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