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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Anderson    
First Name(s)  Thomas    
Year of Birth  1832    
Year of Death  1870    
Entry  Botanist : born Feb. 26, 1832, and took his M.D. degree at Edinburgh University in 1853 : joined the Medical Service, Bengal, in 1854, at Calcutta : was at Delhi during the mutiny : was, in 1860, Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Sibpur, opposite Calcutta, introduced many improvements, and laboured specially for the cultivation of cinchona in India, which afterwards was effected : in 1864 he organised the Forest Department in Bengal : died Oct. 26, 1870, at Edinburgh : published an account of the flora of Aden, and worked at the flora of India generally.     
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