Sanskrit/Indology post (temporary)

Dominik Wujastyk dom at uclblr.iisc.ernet.in
Thu Mar 16 14:35:19 UTC 1995


John Brockington said:
> 
> Further particulars may be obtained from:  The Personnel Office, The University of 
> Edinburgh, 1 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB, to which applications (6 copies), 
               ^^^^^^^^

Presumably this is *the* William Roxburgh (1751-1815), the second
Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic garden, who wrote the _Flora
Indica_ and the _Plants of the coast of Coromandel_, and who
corresponded at length with Joseph Banks about the vegetable life of
India?   Half the plants in India were identified by him.  A very
remarkable pioneer of Indian botany.

Dominik
 






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