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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
dency to perforin the duties of the post, he was appointed to 
succeed Buchanan taking over officiating charge of the Garden 
from the latter in February, 1815. Wallich remained at the 
Garden until April, 1816, when he had to give over charge to 
Hare, whom the Council at Calcutta had appointed superin¬ 
tendent Wallich then lived in Calcutta and was then cer¬ 
tainly superintendent of the Society’s Museum, for we find 
him writing in that capacity to the secretary of the Society 
regarding the hours of closing of the Museum and the rules to 
be observed by its staff. 
Meanwhile the question of the superintendentship of the 
Bctanic Garden had come before the Court of Directors in 
London, with the result that Wallich was reinstated in the 
Garden in August 1817, and this time as substantive superin¬ 
tendent. Wallich found that from the Botanic Garden he 
could not continue to perform efficiently his duties as super¬ 
intendent of the Society’s Museum and he proposed the 
appointment of a joint-superintendent to help him. The 
Society however declined to accept a dual control and relieved 
Wallich altogether of the superintendentship, wdiile highly 
complimenting him on his past services. 
Wallich did not relish his official severance from the 
Museum, and in 1819 he sought permission to resume the 
superintendentship, with the result that the Society in Nov¬ 
ember, 1819 reappointed Wallich as superintendent, making 
Gibbons who had been in charge of the Museum, deputy 
superintendent thereof. It is impossible that Wallich could 
henceforth have devoted much time to his Museum duties, for 
he was absent in or on the way to and from Nepal from July^ 
1820 to December, 1821, and again on a visit to Penang and 
Singapore during 1822. 
For the remainder of his official career in India, which 
lasted until 1846 when he retired, he had but little time to 
spare from his administrative duties as Superintendent of the 
Botanic Garden, and his botanical investigations for Museum 
work, but this in no way lessens the debt which the Indian 
Museum of to-day owes to him as one of its founders and its 
first head. 
It is unnecessary to detail here his botanical activities 
