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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Roxburgh | | | First Name(s) | William | | | Birth Year | 1751 | | | Death Year | 1815 | | | Entry | Born June 3, 1751 : educated at Edinburgh : became a Surgeon's Mate in the E. I. Co.'s marine : M.D. : and Assistant Surgeon in the Madras medical service in 1776 : in charge of the Botanic Garden at Samulcotta, near Coconada, 1781-93 : studied the flora of the Northern Sircars : the E. I. Co.'s Botanist in the Carnatic : Plants of the Coast of Coromandel published from his drawings : appointed first Superintendent of the Botanic Gardenn, near Calcutta, and Chief Botanist of the E. I. Co. in 1793 : held the offices, until he retired in 1813 : died at Edinburgh, Feb. 18, 1815 : F.R.A.S. : F.L.S. : F.S. Arts, and F.R.S., Edinburgh : wrote the Hortus Bengalensis, and Flora Indica, which was not published complete until 1832, an admirable production : the descriptions are accurate and graphic, and its authorship justly entitles Roxburgh to his title of the ' Father of Indian Botany ' : wrote A Botanical Description of a New Species of Swietenia, a Mahogany,. besides papers for the Linnaean Society, the Society of Arts, in Asiatic Researches, etc. etc. : a most ardent and enthusiastic botanist, and a good gardener : the first botanist who attempted to draw up a systematic account of the plants of India : he paid much attention also to economic botany. His monument, with a Latin inscription by Bishop Heber, is in the- Royal Botanic Garden, near Calcutta. |
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