Calcutta Botanic Garden : knowledge formation and the expectations of botany in a colonial context, 1833-1914

Calcutta Botanic Garden was founded in 1786 to acclimatise economic plants, but it quickly became the main institutional base for scientific botany in colonial India. However, it had to make a new start in 1833 after the Garden superintendent, Nathaniel Wallich, distributed its herbarium to botanist...

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Main Author: Thomas, Adrian Peter
Other Authors: Wilson, Jon Edward ; Phalkey, Jahnavi Keshao
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695846