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to scientific bodies in Europe, but most of these have been dis- 

 persed. There are, however, a considerable number of his spe- 

 cimens in the British Museum, at the Linnean Society and the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



Dr. Roxburgh was succeeded at the Botanic Garden by Dr. 

 Francis Buchanan afterwards Hamilton, a man to whom extensive 

 travel had given great knowledge of India. In the Peninsula he had 

 explored the Carnatic, Mysore, Malabar and Canara, and in Bengal, 

 the Rajmahal hills and the whole of the Northern and Eastern 

 districts as far as Assam and Tippera. He had also visited Nipal. 

 The Botanical results of these journeys have been unfortunately in 

 a great measure lost, but many important facts are recorded in his 

 commentaries on the Hortus Malabaricus of Rheede and the Herba- 

 rium. Amboynense of Rumph, two memoirs in which Hamilton has 

 embodied a great deal of valuable information on Indian Botany. 

 His collections form part of the Herbarium of the University of 

 Edinburgh. 



In 1815, the Botanic Garden came into the hands of Dr. Waliich, 

 an ardent and enthusiastic botanist, under whom Indian Botany 

 continued to progress rapidly. The labours of Roxburgh had com- 

 pleted the flora of the plains of India, though the work remained 

 still in MSS. Dr. Waliich took a wider range. Our recent war in 

 Nipal having resulted in the appointment of a Resident at the 

 Court of Katmandu, Waliich joined Mr. Gardner there and col- 

 lected assiduously for more than a year in the vicinity of the capi- 

 tal. The interior was then as now jealously closed against Euro- 

 pean travellers, but by means of native collectors he added a 

 fair knowledge of the alpine flora to the abundant information re- 

 garding that of the temperate and tropical regions which he ob- 

 tained by his personal exertions. 



Dr. Wallich's duties at the gardens not permitting him to pro- 

 long his residence at Katmandu indefinitely, he trained a number 

 of collectors who continued during a long series of years to trans- 

 mit dried specimens from Nipal. Mr. Blink worth, an active collec- 

 tor, at the same time explored Kumaon, and Mr. Gomez contributed 

 extensive collections from the rich province of Silhet and from the 

 neighbouring Khasia hills, while Waliich himself visited Peuang 



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