HISTORY OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN. 33 



Dr. Falconer, was a traveller and botanist of much 

 ability, and the coadjutor of Sir Joseph Hooker in the 

 collection and distribution of an extensive and well- 

 known herbarium of East Indian plants ; and he was 

 also the joint author of the first volume of a new 

 Flora Indica. 



Dr. Thomas Anderson, a native of Edinburgh, a 

 member of the Indian Medical service, and a botanist 

 of distinction, held the post of the Superintendent of the 

 Garden from 1861 to 1869. Dr. Anderson was the first 

 conservator of Forests in Bengal, and the introducer of 

 the quinine-yielding cinchona cultivation in the Sikhim 

 Himalayas. This industry has been carried to such a suc- 

 cessful issue in the plantation and factory under the wise 

 and able direction of the present Superintendent of 

 the Garden, that the Government hospitals and dis- 

 pensaries have for years been supplied from this source 

 with all the quinine required for them. He contributed 

 to the journal of the Linnean Society many valuable 

 papers on the difficult family of Acanthaceae, and wrote 

 for Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of British India. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke, F. R. S., acted as Superinten- 

 dent of the Garden for two years subsequent to Dr. 

 Anderson's departure from India, and during his incum- 

 bency he began the series of botanical publications which 

 have earned for him so high a scientific reputation. Mr. 

 C. B. Clarke was for sometime a member of the Bengal 

 educational service. For his child-like simplicity, great 

 scholarship, and devotion to science he was held in 



