Flora Antarctica
The Flora Antarctica or formally and correctly 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, is a description of the many plants discovered on the Ross expedition, which visited islands off the coast of the Antarctic continent, with a summary of the expedition itself, written by Joseph Dalton Hooker and published in parts between 1844 and 1859 by Reeve Brothers in London. Hooker sailed on HMS "Erebus" as assistant surgeon.

The botanical findings of the Ross expedition were published in four parts, the last two in two volumes each, making six volumes in all:

* Part I "Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands" (1843–45)
* Part II "Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Kerguellen's land, etc" (1845–47)
* Part III "Flora of New Zealand" (1851–53) (2 vols)
* Part IV "Flora of Tasmania" (1853–59) (2 vols)

All were "splendidly" illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch. The larger part of the plant specimens collected during this expedition are now part of the Kew Herbarium.

Although Hooker professed not to have changed his views on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, the "Flora of Tasmania" contains an introductory essay on biogeography written from a Darwinian point of view, making the book the first case study for the theory.
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