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ROYLE, JOHN FORBES (17991858)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 795 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROYLE, JOHN FORBES (17991858) , British botanist and teacher of materia medico, 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 Hindoo
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 he conducted a
special
  department of correspondence, relating to vegetable products, at the East India
House
 , and at the time of his death he had 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 Himalaya Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere, in 2 vols. 4to, begun in 1839. In addition he wrote An Essay on the Productive Resources of India (x840), 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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