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published, through the munificence of the Honorable 

 Company, a botanical work of great merit under the 

 tittle Planta Asiatics Rariores, in three volumes, 

 illustrated by colored plates of a high degree of excellence. 

 Dr. Wallich was a native of Denmark. After having been 

 Superintendent of the Botanic Garden for thirty years, 

 he retired in 1846 and died in 1854. 



Dr. William Griffith filled the post of the Super- 

 intendent of the Garden during Wallich's residence 

 in Europe for the purpose of naming and distributing 

 his collection of plants. His premature death which 

 took place in Malacca in 1845, deprived botanical 

 science of one of its ablest and most industrious votaries. 

 He was born at Ham Common, Surrey. He came 

 out to India as a surgeon in the Honorable Company's 

 Madras Establishment, and was one of the most brilliant 

 of Indian Botanists. He accompanied the punitive 

 expedition to Cabul in 1839, and formed one of the 

 Botanical deputation which explored Assam in connec- 

 tion with the search for, and discovery of the tea 

 plant ; explored the Malayan Peninsula ; amassed an 

 enormous collection of dried plants. His collected works 

 were posthumously published in nine volumes under the 

 editorship of Dr. McLelland. 



Dr. Hugh Falconer succeeded Dr. Griffith as 

 Superintendent of the garden. Dr. Falconer was a 

 palaeontologist, well-known for his researches on the 

 Sivalik Fossil Mammalia. He retired in 1855,. 



Dr. Thomas Thomson, F. JR. S., who succeeded 



