Thomas Thomson
1817–78
Naturalist. MD, Glasgow, 1839. Travelled to India as assistant surgeon to the East India Company. Curator of the Asiatic Society’s museum, Calcutta, 1840. Travelled and was taken prisoner in Afghanistan, 1840–2. Accompanied Joseph Dalton Hooker to the Himalayas, 1850–1, and collaborated with him at Kew on various botanical publications. Superintendent of the Calcutta botanic garden and professor of botany at the Calcutta Medical College from 1855 until his return to England in 1861. FRS 1855.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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