...(1728-1785), famous student of Linnaeus. Promoted to full surgeon in 1780, Roxburgh spent most of his early service in the Northern Circars at the garrison sta
...er of a truly scientific botanical garden of remarkable authenticity under Roxburgh.
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...d (1746-1793), a Secretary to the Board in the Military Department of Fort William who was also an amateur botanist. In a letter dated 1st June, 1786, Kyd pro
...rred seeds and plants to other botanical establishments of the Company. In Roxburgh's ''Hortus Bengalensis'', it is noted that Kyd introduced some 300 species
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...successor Dr [[Roxburgh, William|william roxburgh]] in the garden in 1795. Roxburgh was the first salaried superintendent of the Shibpur garden from 1793 to 18
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[[Image:CareyWilliam.jpg|thumbnail|300px|right|William Carey]]
'''Carey, William''' (1761-1834) scholar, linguist, missionary, was born in the north of En
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...ant species. Subsequently, celebrities such as [[Roxburgh, William|william roxburgh]], Nathaniel Wallich, George King, David Prain and others turned the garden
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...t botany developed was his main passion, as he became assistant to William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1809. In 1815 he became t
...ril 1842 for the Cape and subsequently left for Europe. During his absence William Griffith was nominated to manage the Botanical Garden. Wallich was responsi
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...ioneers were William [[Roxburgh, William|roxburgh]], Nathaniel Wallich and William Griffith. Sir JD Hooker's monumental work, Flora of British India was publi
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...f the Calcutta Garden, a delegation under his charge including a botanist, William Griffith, and a soil expert, John McClelland made their visit to the Assam
...ionaries''''' Plant explorations initiated By [[Roxburgh, William|william roxburgh]], a Scottish surgeon of East India Company, resulted in the publication of
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