3-1 THE .TOURXAL OF BOTANY 



1797, which ends with a message of congratulation on the birth of 

 this child. Bruce Roxburgh entered the service of the H.E.I. 

 Coinpan}^ on 21 April, 1815 ; became Cornet, VI. Bengal Cavalry, 

 4 October, 1816 ; Lieutenant, 1 September, 1818 ; Captain, 1 De- 

 cember, 1829 ; was transferred to the Invalid Establishment, 

 31 August, 1831 ; retired on medical certificate, 13 September, 

 1832 ; and died 14 June, 1861. Though he joined his younger 

 brother James in financing the publication of the Flora Indica, 

 it seems clear that the state of his health must have prevented him 

 from taking any very active part in the correspondence which brought 

 about the production of the work. 



James Roxburgh, the fourth son and seventh child of Dr. William 

 Roxburgh by his second wife, is recorded oificially, and in this 

 instance probably correctly, as having been born in India on 

 25 January, 1802. In a letter dated 11 March, 1802, in which 

 Buchanan informs Roxburgh that he had received " a letter from 

 William," written doubtless after William's return from Chittaoonop 

 and just as William was preparing to leave- for Penang, the con- 

 cluding sentence reads : — " Be so good as to accept of m}^ congratu- 

 lations to you and Mrs. Roxburgh on the increase to your family and 

 present my compliments to Miss Roxburgh and William." James 

 was nominated to the service of the H.E.I. Company by John 

 Thornhill, Director, on the recommendation of his brother-in-law, 

 Henry Stone (husband of the Miss Roxburgh referred to by 

 Buchanan). He became Ensign, XIX Native Infantrv (Bengal), 

 14 February, 1820; Lieutenant, 11 July, 1823; Captain, 12 No- 

 vember, 1832 ; Major, 18 November, 1846 ; permitted to retire 

 from the Army, 28 November, 1849. On 30 December, 1835, he 

 was transferred to the Military Auditor's Department and appears 

 to have served in that department till his retirement. After his 

 transfer to this branch of the service it is on record that "the 

 Madras Government authorised the purchase of nine copies of a 

 botanical work written by the late Dr. Roxburgh, the Company's 

 Botanist, called ' Flora Indica,' published by him (Capt. Roxburgh) 

 in conjunction with his Brother, Capt. B. Roxburgh." Shortly 

 thereafter he was " permitted to place at his own expense a suitable 

 building over the column or monument erected in the Botanical 

 Gardens in 1822, to the memory of his late father." The inscription 

 on the monument that James Roxburgh thus so thoughtfully pro- 

 tected may be found by the curious at the end of the preface to the 

 reprint of Roxburgh's Flora Indica which we owe to the public 

 spirit of the late C. J3. Clarke, issued at Calcutta in 1874, ten years 

 before the death of James Roxburgh. 



