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See also:ROYLE, See also:JOHN See also:FORBES (1799—1858) , See also:British botanist and teacher of materia medico, was See also:born in See also:Cawnpore in 1799. Entering the service of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying See also:botany and See also:geology, and made large collections among the See also:Himalaya Mountains. He also investigated the medical properties of the See also:plants of
Hindustan and the See also:history of their uses among the native races. The results of these investigations appeared in an See also:essay On the Antiquity of Hindoo See also:Medicine (1837). For nearly ten years he held the See also:post of See also:superintendent of the East India Company's botanic See also:garden in the Himalayas at See also:Saharanpur. In 1837 he was appointed to the professorship of materia medica in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:London, which he held till 1856. From 1838 onwards he conducted a See also:special See also:department of See also:correspondence, See also:relating to See also:vegetable products, at the East India See also:House, and at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death he had just completed there an extensive and valuable museum of technical products from the East Indies. In 1851 he superintended the See also:Indian department of the See also:Great See also:Exhibition. He died at See also:Acton near London on the 2nd of See also:January 1858.
The See also: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 See also: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 See also:Commerce of See also:Cotton in India and Elsewhere (1851) and The Fibrous Plants of India fitted for Cordage (1855), together with papers in scientific See also:journals.
End of Article: ROYLE, JOHN FORBES (1799—1858)
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