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Mysore. Library: 700 volumes, about 1000 aa Se Her- 
barium: About 3000 specimens. Plantations: Systematic, eco- 
nomic. Arboretum. Fruticetum. Publications: Ree Leaf- 
ets. Museum: Open free weekdays, 7 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. 
Special lectures are given to school children. Living material 
ferred to as “a place of public resort besides being a center of 
botanical and horticultural information.” 
BOMBAY 
VictoriA BoTANIC GARDENS 
No reply to our questionnaire 
CALCULA 
Royat Botanic GARDEN, CALCUTTA 
Sibpur, near Calcutta, British India 
Established: 1787. Area: 273 acres. 
Directors: (Superintendents ) 
1. Lt. Col. Robert Kyd, Founder (1787-1793) 
. William Roxburgh (1794-1814? Gage, l.c., gives 1813) 
3. Francis Buchanan (afterwards Sir Buchanan Hamilton) 
(1814-16). Fide reply to our Questionnaire. A. T. 
Gage (Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. 51: 71-81. 1926) states 
that, “ Between 1813 and 1817 H. T. Colebrooke, Francis 
Hamilton, Nathaniel Wallich, James Hare, and Thomas 
Casey successively held charge of the Garden, until in 
the latter year the Court of Directors finally appointed 
Wallich.” 
Nathaniel Wallich (1817-1846) ; Absent at the Cape (1842- 
44) 
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. William Griffith (Offg.) (1843-1846) 
. G. McClelland (Offg.) (1846-1848) 
Hugh Falconer (1848-1855) 
Thomas Thomson (1855-1861) 
. Thomas Anderson (1861-1868) 
10. C. B. Clarke (Offg.) (1869-1871) 
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