James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925) annotated List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal and correspondence
Content Description
This collection holds a copy of List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal (1878) which has been annotated. Additionally, there are notes both tipped in and loosely between pages, as well as some pieces of correspondence that have been left between the pages.
Dates
- Creation: 1878
Biographical / Historical
James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925) was a British forester and member of the Indian Forest Service. He was selected for forestry training by the Secretary of State for India in 1869 and posted in Burma in November 1871, only to be moved months later to Bengal where he wrote the volume featured in this collection and served as editor for Sir William Schlich's Indian Forester. Afterwards, he was made Conservator in Madras until 1890 when he became the Director of the Imperial Forest School at Dehra Dun. Besides List of the Trees, he is also known for his publications A Manual of Indian Timbers (1881) and Flora of the Presidency of Madras (1915).
Extent
1 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925) annotated List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal and correspondence
- Author
- Christi Thomas
- Date
- 16 July 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository