M0001642: Photographic portrait of Thomas Anderson, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta between 1861-1869

Date:
06 February 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/15/37
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M0001642: Photographic portrait of Thomas Anderson, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta between 1861-1869. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Thomas Anderson.

Description

Black and white reproduction of a photographic portrait of Thomas Anderson M.D., director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta between 1861-1869, who introduced cinchona cultivation into Bengal from Java at Darjeeling in 1862.

Publication/Creation

06 February 1931

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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