Benjamin Heyne
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Benjamin Heyne FLS was a German botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a botanist to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency under the British East India Company. He collected and
North West View of Nandydroog
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
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Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer a
Benjamin Heyne
…plantarum species praesertim Indiae orientali (a book of Indian flora) is largely based on Heyne's botanical specimens. Benjamin Heyne was assistant to Francis Buchanan on his Mysore Survey. He recorded in his Journal, his visits to sites with Col. Colin Mackenzie : "To Sautgur Hill (near Conjeeveram) with Mackenzie…
An illustration of Geoclemys hamiltonii (black pond turtle) by Thomas Hardwicke