WILLIAM ROXBURGH + 
insinuate that some other botanist is either an egregious blunderer, a vile ficher of 
another man’s species, or a person of supreme incompetence. 
As regards economic botany, Roxburgh's Fiera is a perfect mine of wealth; and it 
is only since the publication of Dr. Watt's Economie Dictionary that it has been super- 
seded as the standard book on Indian vegetable economics. Much of Roxbungh’s timo 
and a great deal of his attention were given to enquiries into indigenous vegetable pro- 
ducts; and so greatly were his researches into the sources of fibres* and other useful 
cubstonces «йай із Жаркы, that on по fewer than three occasions were gold medals 
awarded to him by the Society of Arts. To him also much credit was due for the 
organization of the arrangements succesfully carried out by one of his sons, for the 
introduction into the Honourable Company's Malayan possossions of the cultivation of 
the trees yielding cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. 
Roxburgh was not, as has been stated in some notioos of him, one of the founders 
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. As a fact he was stationed at Samulcotta when it was 
founded (1784); but after his settlement in Caleutta he took an active interest in its 
management and contributed several papers to its Hesearches.t — Bosidos being a member of 
the Asiatic Society, Roxburgh was a Fellow of the Linnman Society of London, of the 
Society of Arts, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Не was not, however, а Fellow 
of the Royal Society of London. 
© In Vol. XXII ef tho Transections of the Society of Arte (London, 1904), there are printed many letters of 
ہے‎ Apte of his experiments into the mode of cultivation and properties of the bre of hemp 
agera, Abiseus, ka. 
is Scientific Journals (taken from the Royal Society's Catalogue of‏ سوه ہہ ہو ہیں 
عےہ papers) is given below‏ 
Roxburgh, William. On the Ідей or Lac-Insect (Соғене Lorca). Asintio Researches, IT. 1200, рр 161—961; Tilloch, 
"та 
2. А description of the plant Bates, Asistio Researches, TIL, 1792, рр. 469—474. 
3. A description of the مسل‎ Asistio Researches, TV, 1706, рр, 855—358, 
4. Prompis avuleata, Koenig, Tehamie of the Hindus in the Northern Cireare Asiatic Researches, IV, 1708, 
Мк "лөт 2 тид mt سم‎ th Bat Todien, Bihan, door ا دی‎ 
