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of this branch of science. Besides the Flora Indica, 

 Roxburgh published in three large volumes his Planta 

 Coromandeliana, being descriptions, with figures, of three 

 hundred of the most striking plants of the Corornandel 

 Coast. 



Dr. Francis Buchanan (afterwards Buchanan- 

 Hamilton) succeeded Dr. Roxburgh as Superintendent 

 of the Botanic Garden. Dr. Buchanan-Hamilton was 

 an accomplished botanist and zoologist. He travelled 

 extensively in India, and collected materials for a 

 gazetteer, published " An account of the agriculture of 

 Mysore, in three volumes, quarto ; " " An account of the 

 Fishes of the Ganges," and other works. He was born 

 in Perthsire in 1762, and died in 1837. He held charge 

 of the garden for only a short time. 



<7 Dr. Nathfrtel Wallich lately Surgeon to the 

 Danisy settlement at Serampore succeeded Dr. Bucha- 

 nan-Hamilton in the Superintendentship of the garden. 

 Dr. Wallich was an accomplished and most energetic 

 botanist, who during the earlier part of his term of 

 office organised collecting expeditions into the remote 

 and then little known regions of Kumaon, Nepal, Sylhet, 

 Tenasserim, Penang, and Singapore. Dr. Wallich in fact 

 undertook a botanical survey of the large part of the 

 Indian Empire, and accumulated a large collection of 

 materials in the shape of dried specimens of plants. 

 These were taken to England and after being named by 

 himself and other botanists were distributed ta the 

 leading botanical institutions of Europe. Dr. Wallich 



