Biography

British botanist
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"Fellow of the Linnean, the Geological, the Horticultural, and the Royal Asiatic Societies of London; of the Asiatic and Medical Societies of Calcutta; Member of the Imperial Society Naturae Curiosorum; &c. &c.; Late Superintendant of the Honourable E.I. Company's Botanic Garden at Saharunpore; Professor of Materia Medica and Theraputics, King's College" -- t.p. of his *Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains :and of the flora of Cashmere*, vol. II (1839)