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many new genera and species which were published in his ‘ Malayan Miscellanies.’ 
His collections, unfortunately, were for the most part lost by an accident, but those 
which were saved are now in the Herbarium Delessert in Geneva. 
Somewhat similar to Griffith in temperament and versatility was the brilliant 
Victor Jacquemont, a French Botanist who, at the instance of the Paris Natural 
History Museum, travelled in India for three years from 1829 to 1832, During 
this period Jacquemont collected largely in the Gangetic plain. He then entered 
the North-West Himalaya at Mussourie, explored Gharwal and Sirmur, ascended 
the Sutlej to Kanawer and Piti (at that time unexplored), visited Cashmir, and 
returning to the plains, crossed Northern Rajputana to Malwa and the Deccan. 
He finally reached Bombay with the intention of returning to France. But at 
Bombay he succumbed to disease of the liver, brought on by hard work and 
exposure. His remains, after having lain in the cemetery there for fifty years, 
were, with that tender regard for the personality of her famous sons which 
France has always shown, exhumed in 1881, and conveyed in a French frigate to 
find a permanent resting-place in the place of Jacquemont’s birth. Jacquemont’s 
collections were transmitted to Paris, and his plants were described by 
Cambessedes and Decaisne, while his non-botanical collections were elaborated 
by workers in the branches of science to which they respectively appertained, the 
whole being published in four volumes quarto, at the expense of the French 
Government. 
The roll of eminent Botanists who worked in India during the first half of the 
century closes with the name of Thomas Thomson, who collected plants extensively 
between 1842 and 1847 in Rohilkund and the Punjab, and again still more exten- 
sively during a Government mission to the North-West Himalaya and Tibet 
which was continued from 1847 to 1849. During this period Dr. Thomson 
explored Simla, Kanawar, Piti, Cashmir, Ladak, and part of the Karakoram. 
His collections, which were large and important, were transmitted to the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, and thence in part to Kew. ‘They formed no insignificant 
part of the materials on which the ‘ Flora Indica’ and ‘ Flora of British India’ were 
founded. Dr. Thomson also published an account of his travels—an admirable 
book, though now jostled out of memory by the quantities of subsequently issued 
books of Himalayan travel and adventure. 
About the year 1820 a second centre of Botanical enterprise was established at 
Seharunpore, in the North-West Provinces. A large old garden near that impor- 
tant town, which had been originally founded by some Mohammedan nobles of the 
Delhi Court, was taken over by the Honourable Company, and was gradually put 
upon a scientific basis by Dr. George Govan, who was appointed its first superinten- 
dent. Dr. Govan was in 1823 succeeded by Dr. J. Forbes Royle, and he in 1832 by 
Dr. Hugh Falconer. Dr. Royle made collections in the Jumno-Gangetic plain, in the 
Lower Gharwal Himalaya, and in Cashmir. He was distinguished in the field of 
Economic rather than in that of Systematic Botany, his chief contribution to the 
latter having beena folio volume entitled ‘Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya 
Mountains.’ His valuable labours as an Economic Botanist will be noticed later on. 
Hugh Falconer was an accomplished palontologist who devoted but little of his 
splendid talents to Botany. His great contribution to paleontology, the value of 
which it is almost impossible to over-estimate, consisted of his exploration and 
classification of the tertiary fossils of the Sewalik range. Falconer was transferred 
to the Calcutta Garden in 1842. He was succeeded at Seharunpore by Dr. W. 
Jameson, who explored the Botany of Gharwal, Kamaon, and Cashmir, but who 
published nothing Botanical, his chief energies having been devoted to the useful 
work of introducing the cultivation of the China tea plant into British India, and 
this he did (as will afterwards be mentioned) with triumphant success. 
During the first half of the century, a considerable amount of excellent Botanic 
work was done in Western India by Graham, Law, Nimmo, Gibson, Stocks, and 
Dalzell, the results of whose labours culminated in the preparation by Graham of 
a List of the Plants of Bombay, which was not, however, published until 1839 (after 
his death); in the publication by Stocks of various papers on the Botany of Scinde ; 
and in the publication by Dalzell and Gibson in 1861 of his ‘ Floraof Bombay.’ Itis 
