Nathaniel Wallich
Botanist, Academic
1786 – 1854
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Who was Nathaniel Wallich?
Nathaniel Wallich FRS was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him.
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