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John Forbes Royle (
1799-
January 2,
1858),
British botanist and teacher of
materia medica, was born in
Cawnpore in 1799. Entering the service of the
East India Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying botany and geology, and made large collections among the
Himalaya Mountains. He also investigated the medical properties of the plants of
Hindustan and the history of their uses among the native races. The results of these investigations appeared in an essay
On the Antiquity of Hindu Medicine (1837). For nearly ten years he held the post of superintendent of the East India Company's botanic garden in the Himalayas at
Saharanpur. In 1837 he was appointed to the professorship of materia medica in
King's College London, which he held till 1856. From 1838 onwards be conducted a special department of correspondence, relating to vegetable products, at the East India House, and at the time of his death he'd just completed there an extensive and valuable museum of technical products from the East Indies. In 1851 he superintended the Indian department of the
Great Exhibition. He died at
Acton near
London on the 2nd of January 1858.
The work on which his reputation chiefly rests is the
Illustrations of the Botany and other branches of Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the
Flora of Cashmere, in 2 vols. begun in 1839. In addition he wrote
An Essay on the Productive Resources of India (1840),
On the Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India and Elsewhere (1851) and
The Fibrous Plants of India fitted for Cordage (1855), together with papers in scientific journals.
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