Dictionary of Indian Biography/Anderson, Thomas
ANDERSON, THOMAS (1832–1870)
Botanist : born Feb. 26, 1832, and took his M.D. degree at Edinburgh University in 1853 : joined the Medical Service, Bengal, in 1854, at Calcutta : was at Delhi during the mutiny : was, in 1860. Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Sibpur, opposite Calcutta, introduced many improvements, and laboured specially for the cultivation of cinchona in India, which afterwards was effected : in 1864 he organised the Forest Department in Bengal : died Oct. 26, 1870, at Edinburgh : published an account of the flora of Aden, and worked at the flora of India generally.