Hugh Cleghorn (forester)
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Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn was a Madras-born Scottish physician, botanist, forester and land owner. Sometimes known as the father of scientific forestry in India, he was the first Conservator of For
Hugh Cleghorn, charcoal drawing made by Theodore Blake Wirgman on 6 July 1888
Cleghornia acuminata described by Robert Wight
"Foot of the Poonachy Pass", from Forests and Gardens of South India, illustrated by Douglas Hamilton.
Cleghorn (extreme right) with, from left to right, John Lindsay Stewart, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon and William Jameson taken at the Punjab Exhibition, Lahore, 1864.
Dietrich Brandis
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Sir Dietrich Brandis was a German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator, who worked with the British Imperial Forestry Service in colonial India for nearly 30 years. He joined the B
Hugh Cleghorn (forester)
…shifting cultivation he considered particularly damaging. One of his first acts as Conservator was a brief trip to Burma in January 1857, when he met Dietrich Brandis, who was already working there on the teak forests. Having witnessed their denudation by private business interests, Cleghorn believed that the State…
Dietrich Brandis
Dalbergia sissoo from "Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India"