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Management of the Zoological Garden, Calcutta, the site of which 
e found a collection of native huts and converted into a beautiful 
arden, He was a member of the Board of Visitors of the 
ngineering College of Bengal. in which he took a livel y and effective 
interest. He was for many years one of the Trustees of the Indian 
Museum, and was at one time the Chairman of that body. He was 
from 1894, till he retired, the President of the Central Committee 
appointed by Government to investigate the indigenous drugs of the 
country. 
His skill as a landscape gardener was recognised by the Royal 
Horticultural Society, who awarded him its Victoria Medal in 1901. 
tribution of the alkaloids of Cinchona bark brought him the 
honorary membership of the Pharmaceutical Society, the grade of 
Officer d’Instruction publique, the gift of a ring of honour by the 
Czar of Russia, and the companionship of the Order of the Indian 
Empire. His botanical work led to his honorary association with 
—_ his memory is treasured by the members of the Kew staff, with 
whom he was so long and so intimately associated, 
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we m 1874, and was descended from the fourth son of the first 
on it may be recalled that the 
Mountnorris, the title becoming extinet in 1844 
al aspect. At Castlewellan 
A ee the most extensive 
Si ‘ pe. 1e domain is a delight- 
oy cee tape water and wood, situated on the shalbetiel 
an mae ourne mountains a few miles from the sea and 
J g the climate of the west of Scotland 
leaves a foot across and Lomatia 
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Castlewellan and seldom seen in cultiva- 
are well known to lovers of 
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