People E Molony, Acting Secretary to the Government General Department Major C M Campbell* Reverend W Carey* Major James Craigie, Secretary to the Military Board *Members of the Plantation Committee in addition to Wallich Contents No 57 [11 folios] Letter to E. Molony from Plantation Committe...
No 60 Letter to E. Molony, Acting Secretary to the Government General Department, from Wallich, 14 Feb 1828: covering letter which refers to enclosed lists, which refers to enclosed lists, which describe the contents of four chests of growing plants being sent to the Court of Directors on the C...
Nathaniel Wallich submits statement of expenses for employment of two local people, Ram Chund Maulee and Ramnarain Baugh, for collecting orchids in the Khasi Hills. Because the plant collectors had run away on the arrival of [John] Gibson, gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, the Secretary to the...
No 26 Letter to G. A. Bushby, Secretary to the Government of Bengal General Department, from Wallich, 21 Dec [1840] covering letter for nos 27-31, which relate to plants despatched from and received into the Botanic Garden gives an overview of some issues relating to the Botanic Garden, coverin...
Report by William Griffith on the Calcutta Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Includes: lists of desiderata of medical plants, extracted from Dr John Lindley's Flora Medica: a botanical account of all the more important plants used in medicine, in different parts of the world; plus lists of plants and seeds distributed from the botanic garden during 1843; list of "useful p...
List of plants introduced into the Calcutta Botanic Garden from China by Robert Fortune, supplied by the Superintendent of the garden, Thomas Thomson, to the Government of India