IOR/F/4/1949/84713

Summary:

Letter to Court of Directors from Governor General, followed by series of enclosures, 21 Jun 1841

Contents:

Covering page

Table of contents

Correspondence relating to

• evaluation of work and productivity of Calcutta Botanic Garden, in the context of an analysis of the wider work of botanic gardens throughout India
• work of Nathaniel Wallich, including his commitments relating to the Tea Committee, which placed a strain on his health, and distracted him from other tasks, eg. writing correspondence, preparing report relating to botanic garden [see below], teaching at the Medical College

A report relating to the botanic garden, with an introduction written to G. A. Bushby, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, General Department, from Wallich, 21 Dec 1840 [typed]. Includes four sections, A-D:

• [A] A list of such species of growing perennial plants, including tubers and bulbs, as have been distributed from the garden from Jan 1836 to Nov 1840, arranged according to their natural orders, placed alphabetically
• [B] A general list of the parties who have been supplied from the preceding series of living plants, specifying the dates of delivery, the number of species and individuals furnished on each occasion, the number of plant boxes when flower pots were not exclusively used, and the destinations, whenever the assortments were not intended for India.
• [C] A separate list of plants dispatched by sea, detailing the sort of boxes sent, the parties supplied, the destinations, the names of the ships and their commanders, as well as the dates of dispatch.
• [D] A list of boxes of plants received by sea, exhibiting the names of donors and ships, the number of species contained in each case, with remarks on the condition in which the assortments arrived.

A list of the 100 copies of the report, including the quantities sent to various individuals and organisations

Letter to Wallich from G. A. Bushby, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the General Department, 7 Apr 1841

• includes comments on Wallich’s report