Robert Wight
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Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist
Robert Wight
Drosera burmanni by the artist Rungiah from "Spicilegium Neilgherrense"
Wight in 1855 from a Maull & Polyblank albumen print (from the NPG)
Illustration of Calotropis published in 1835
Patrick Russell was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India. He studied the snakes of India and is considered the "Father of Indian Ophiology". Russell's viper is named after him, as is
Robert Wight
…the Governor of Madras, Stephen Rumbold Lushington, scrapped the Naturalist's post, and its collections (including Wight's own, and earlier ones of Patrick Russell and the Tranquebar Missionaries) were sent to the Company headquarters in London. Wight was redeployed to regimental duties as garrison surgeon at…
Patrick Russell with Turban in Aleppo, c. 1770.
Structure of the cobra hood. William Clift, 1804