William Griffith
1810–45
Botanist. Travelled extensively in India, making natural history collections with the aim of compiling a flora of India. Superintendent of the Calcutta botanic garden and professor of botany at the Calcutta Medical College, 1842–4. Died of hepatitis in Malacca.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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