Wallich, Nathaniel F.R.S. (1786-1854), Danish surgeon and botanist, and his son Wallich, George Charles, (1815-1899), surgeon and naturalist
- Wallich, Nathaniel, 1786-1854.
- Date:
- 1818-1862
- Reference:
- MS.7805
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
These items were formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.
Publication/Creation
1818-1862
Physical description
11 items
Acquisition note
Purchased from: Desgranges, Paris, February 1931; Stevens, London, March 1931; Sotheby's, London, November 1931 and December 1931; and Glendining, London, February 1932 and January 1935. nos. 2, 5-6 and 8 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939; no. 2 also carries the accession number 16488, which indicates that it would have been acquired around late 1906, although the precise provenance is not recorded.
Biographical note
Nathaniel Wallich qualified M.D. in Copenhagen and became a surgeon in the Danish settlement at Serampore, India, in 1807. When this settlement was taken over by the East India Company in 1813 Wallich transferred to English service and became the long-serving superintendant of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, retiring to England in 1847.
His son George Charles Wallich qualified M.D. in Edinburgh in 1834 and served in the Indian Medical Service.
Related material
For further material relating to Nathaniel Wallich se MSS. 7425/4, 7453/4, 7545/49, 7559/13, 7578/3, 7715/1 and 7830/31-32 and 49 (no. 31 here also mentions George Wallich). For further material relating to George Wallich see MSS. 4962-4970.
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Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
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- accs. 64699, 56474, 65332, 75871, 67