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ROXBURGH, William (1751-1815)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-ROXBW

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: ROXBURGH, William (1751-1815)

Date(s): [1793]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Roxburgh | William | 1751-1815 | botanist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1751; educated University of Edinburgh; surgeon's mate on one of the East India Company's ships, 1766; assistant surgeon on the Company's Madras establishment; General Hospital at Madras; practised botany in his spare time; full surgeon, 1780; stationed at Samulcotta, 1781; naturalist in the Madras Presidency, 1790; Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden in Calcutta, 1793-1813; returned to England, 1813; died, 1815.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

A botanical description... of a new species of Swietenia or Mahogany by William Roxburgh, [1793].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Provenance of the collection is unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.