Wallich and Indian Natural History
Sciurus macrourus, long-tailed squirrel. Sydney Parkinson, Ceylon drawings.
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Wallich and Indian natural history: Collection dispersal and the cultivation of knowledge
The lectures and discussions from this conference may be downloaded in podcasts from the Backdoor Broadcasting Company site.
A two-day interdisciplinary conference to celebrate the collections of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854) and Indian natural history was held on the 6th – 7th December, 2011, at the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Details of this past conference may be found here below.
Wallich and Indian Natural History PDF (70.5 KB)
Over the course of this project, the team worked to reunite historically and scientifically significant plant specimens at the Museum with the correspondence and illustrations of Nathaniel Wallich.
Nathaniel Wallich was the superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens for the East India Company from 1817 to 1846.
The project includes:
- a website: www.kew.org/wallich
- collaboration with the Calcutta Botanic Gardens and the National Archives of India
- a survey of collateral natural history drawing collections
- hosting of humanities researchers from India
- a two-day interdisciplinary conference
Please contact z.naghizadeh@nhm.ac.uk for more details of this project.
In partnership with
Funded by
- World Collections Programme, British Museum