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…had added pencil annotations identifying these subgroups, three of which are relevant to the present story. The self-explanatory ‘Buchanan’ and ‘Hamilton’ collections (Buchanan changed his name to Hamilton, in 1818,…
…former students of John Hope: William Roxburgh (1751–1815, to be discussed below) and Francis Buchanan (1762–1829, later Buchanan Hamilton). The Buchanan examples chosen turn out, entirely coincidentally, to come from…
…Himalayan botanist this is sacred territory as, following his return from India in 1815, Leny was the home of Dr Francis Buchanan. In order to inherit his maternal estates from…
…facebook page. The first natural history collections from Nepal were made by Dr Francis Buchanan (later known as Buchanan-Hamilton) in 1802–03, whilst surgeon-naturalist on the British Mission led by Captain…
…for John Forbes Royle at the Saharunpur Botanic Garden, and 100 for Francis Buchanan on the Bengal Survey. ‘Carey’ proves to be a red herring: none of the drawings has…
… https://stories.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Iris-clarkei.mp3 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19371008 Scientific Name:Iris clarkei Baker ex Hook.f. Family:Iridaceae Genus:Iris Epithet:clarkei Collector:Ludlow, Francis & Sherriff, George Year:1936 Origin:Outer China incl. Tibet:Xizang…
…Collections Accession Factsheet Accession Number:19370196 Scientific Name:Rhododendron thomsonii Hook.f. ssp. thomsonii Family:Ericaceae Genus:Rhododendron Epithet:thomsonii Collector:Ludlow, Francis & Sherriff, George Year:1936 Origin:Outer China incl. Tibet:Xizang (Tibet) Aut. Reg.:Nyingsang La Elevation:3,800m Plant:19370196A…
…Collector:Rock, Joseph Francis Charles Plant:19599781C Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19599781E Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19599781D Location:/Living Collections/Inverleith/W10/ZZP030 Plant:19599781A Location:/Living Collections/Logan/Z12 Plant:19599781B Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced Plant:19599781F Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced See full details in the Living Collections Catalogue…
…long connection with Nepal, dating back to 1802 when Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton made the first scientific collections of plants from the Kathmandu Valley. Known as the Father of Nepalese Botany,…
…the first Western scientists to be able to explore Nepal was the Scottish physician and botanist Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. Mark Watson, who heads up the Flora of Nepal project at the…
…Cottage, in which John Hope lectured to William Roxburgh and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, pioneers in the exploration of the Indian flora, it would also be good if it could illustrate an…
…distribute as part of his labours (those of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, George Finlayson, Benjamin Heyne, William Roxburgh, Patrick Russell, Robert Wight, and the Tranquebar Missionaries). Part of a typical page in…
…part for its ‘Shangri La’ mystique (snowy mountains; the difficulty to obtain permission to enter it), but also for its botanical riches. These had first been revealed by Francis Buchanan…
…time the Treaty of Segauli was signed, in March 1816, RBGE’s scientific links were already well-established. They extended back to 1802 when Scottish surgeon-naturalist Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton made the first…
…1814), to which it had been introduced from China in 1794 under the name of ‘ye-hup’. There is a specimen cultivated in the Calcutta Garden from China in Francis Buchanan’s…
…(undated) Pyrus pashia is the Wild Himalayan pear and was first described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in Prodromus Florae Nepalensis in 1825. Francis Buchanan-Hamilton studied botany under John Hope and would…
…who was behind the order that, on Francis Buchanan’s departure from India in 1815, he must leave behind the drawings he had commissioned during his survey of Bengal. Buchanan blamed…
…and Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University), and Hiroshi Ikeda from Tokyo University. *Dr Francis Buchanan-Hamilton made the first scientific natural history collections in Nepal during his stay in the…
…Buchanan (Buchanan-Hamilton) who in 1802 was the first western botanist to make a detailed study of the flora of Nepal. This continued with visits to Nepal by Wallich in the…