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is in the India House. A selection of 300 of the more remarkable 

 forms was published in England by Sir Joseph Banks, at the expense 

 of the Court of Directors, and outlines of many others have been in- 

 troduced by Dr. Wight into his ' Icones Plantarum.' The species 

 described by Dr. Roxburgh in the * Flora Indica * can, in general, be 

 readily determined from these drawings, so that there is less occasion 

 than might have been expected to regret the absence of dried specimens. 

 Dr. Roxburgh probably collected largely. He certainly transmitted 

 considerable collections to scientific bodies in Europe, but most of 

 these have been dispersed ; there are however a considerable number 

 of his specimens in the British Museum, at the Linnean Society, and 

 the University of Edinburgh. 



Dr. Roxburgh was succeeded at the Botanic Garden by Dr. Francis 

 Buchanan, afterwards Hamilton, a man to whom extensive travel had 

 given great knowledge of India. In the Peninsula he had explored 



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the Carnatic, Mysore, Malabar, and Canara, and in Bengal, the Raj- 

 mahal Hills, and the whole of the northern and eastern districts, as far 

 as Assam and Tippera. He had also visited Nipal. The botanical re- 

 suits of these journeys have been unfortunately, in a great measure, 

 lost, but many important facts are recorded in his commentaries on the 

 'Hortus Malabaricus' of Rheede, and the ' Herbarium Amboynense' of 

 Rumpb, two memoirs in which Hamilton has embodied a great deal of 

 valuable information on Indian Botany. His collections form part of 

 the Herbarium of the University of Edinburgh. 



In 1815 the Botanic Garden came into the hands of Dr. Wallich, 

 an ardent and enthusiastic botanist, under whom Indian Botany con- 

 tinued to progress rapidly. The labours of Roxburgh had completed 

 the flora of the plains of India, though the work remained still in MSS. 

 Dr. Wallich took a wider range. Our recent war in Nipal having re- 

 sulted in the appointment of a Resident at the Court of Katmandu, 

 Wallich joined Mr. Gardner there, and collected assiduously for more 

 than a year in the vicinity of the capital. The interior was then, as 

 now, jealously closed against European travellers, but by means of 

 native collectors he added a fair knowledge of the alpine flora to the 

 abundant information regarding that of the temperate and tropical 

 regions, which he obtained by his personal exertions. 



I>r. Wallieh's duties at the Gardens not permitting him to prolong 

 his resident at Katmandu indefinitely, he trained a number of col- 



