Considered by his 18th-century contemporaries to be the greatest
botanist since Linnaeus', this is the first full biography of The
Founding Father of Indian Botany', William Roxburgh. Born in the
mid 18th-century, William Roxburgh was brought up in the centre of
the Edinburgh Enlightenment, with all the patronage and
intellectual curiosity that this entailed. After joining the East
India Company as an Assistant Surgeon on one of their ships, he
joined the staff of the General Hospital at Madras. Soon, he was
Company Naturalist, describing many species for the first time
which inspired some beautiful watercolour drawings by Indian
artists, copies of which were sent to Sir Joseph Banks at Kew.
Arising from his scientific work, he was appointed the first paid
Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1793, where he
continued his previous experimental work as well as looking into
the introduction of a wide range of crops.
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