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…extend back beyond 200 years, to 1802, when RBGE-trained Francis Buchanan-Hamilton made the first scientific collections of plants from the Kathmandu Valley. It is therefore fitting that the Britain-Nepal Bicentenary…
…Edinburgh bequest in mind (an example that would later be followed by that other great pioneer of Indian Botany, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton). As this formed a distinct collection, housed in its…
…of the historical record by Hindu fundamentalists, was Francis Buchanan (as a result of his visits to Burma, Nepal and northern Bengal). The tragedy for Prinsep was that the strain…
…Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895) from the Garden’s archives, as well as paintings of Nepalese plants by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) on loan from the Linnaean Society of London. Room 2: The Art…
…of John Hope (1725-1786), John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) and Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895). ____________________________________________________________________________________ Partner Exhibition I still believe… | John Hope Gateway | 22 July – Dec…
…Nepalese plants by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) on loan from the Linnaean Society of London. Many of these unique posters are available for purchase at a special exhibition price for a…
…Leny House, and it was here, 20 years after Bruce’s death, that Francis Buchanan-Hamilton retired to his own ancestral home. In India his had also been a life both of…
…var. grandiflora, was first found in Nepal by Francis Buchanan. Hand coloured lithograph of Clematis montana from Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae Rariores t. 217 RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet Accession…
A tangled Calcutta-Caledonian web: James Kerr, John Fleming and John Hope’s engravings of asafoetida
…commissioned by William Roxburgh, Francis Buchanan and William Hunter, in addition to commissioning his own from a variety of artists. Although Fleming died in 1829 it was not until 1882…
…as a child, but that were swept away in a lamentable programme of ‘modernisation’. The Colonel was also a keen botanist for whom in 1886 his friend Francis Buchanan White…
…of the Botanic Cottage) – William Roxburgh and Francis Buchanan, the latter lent by the Linnean Society. Representing the next generation are watercolours made for Alexander Gibson and Robert Wight…
…the attentions of gardeners in the 1830s Primula denticulata was originally described and illustrated 30 years earlier in 1806 by material sent from Nepal by Dr Francis Buchanan Hamilton. The…
…Tilt” which is about J.H. Balfour’s infamous run in with Duke of Atholl‘s men here. I should also note that it is generally either Nathaniel Wallich or Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (another…
…by East India Company employees from all corners of the Company’s territories. Boxes of Indian specimens collected by Scottish naturalists Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), George Finlayson (1790–1823), William Roxburgh (1751–1815), Patrick…
…for killing leeches. It was first found in Nepal by Francis Buchanan and described by a fellow Edinburgh student of John Hope, James Edward Smith. John Forbes Royle first sent…
…India where it was sold at a great price. Pope Francis has included the N. jatamansi (D.Don) DC. in his coat of arms, to the right of the star, as…
…Buchanan and known as Buchanan-Hamilton, 1762-1829). This is sometimes abbreviated ‘Herb. Ham.’ 4) ‘Herb. Roxb.’ is a small herbarium, with no duplicates, of the William Roxburgh (1751-1815), Superintendent of the…
…in June 1879 to glass cutter Francis Hatley and his wife Catherine. John worked as a baker before enlisting in the army in 1896, serving as a gunner in the…
…Inverleith. They were received in Central Africa by John Buchanan who was keen to establish coffee plantations in Zomba but his enterprise was not a great success. The 3 coffee…
…and award-winning author of a string of best-selling popular science books, Gavin Francis; successful children’s author Debi Gliori on Alfie and inspiration; and Sarah Jane Douglas talking about her first…