Robert Wight and his European Botanical Collaborators

Abstract

The Scottish-born East India Company surgeon and botanist Robert Wight, who spent his working life in southern India, is used as an example to show some of the botanical networks operating between India and Europe (and to a lesser extent within India) in the period 1820 to 1850. The information in this chapter1 is taken from a recent series of monographs on Wight’s life and work,2 to which readers are directed for further detail and background.