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Last Name Wallich

Given Name George Charles

alt. Names G. C. W. ;

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Year born 1815 in Calcutta

Year died 1899

Place of death Marylebone, London

Father's occupation botanist surgeon, head of Calcutta botanical gardens Nathaniel Wallich (= Nathan ben Wolff) (1786-1854)

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Education medicine at University of Edinburgh ; art at King's College Aberdeen

Country of Activity India

Worked for G. C. W. on amoeba in: Annals Nat. Hist. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 11 (1863) ; The North-Atlantic sea-bed. Comprising a diary of the voyage on board H.M.S. Bulldog, in 1860 (London 1862) ; Charles Darwin: Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (London 1872) ; Philipp Henry Gosse (1810-1888) ;

Patronage Linnean Medal 1898 ; Royal Microscopical Society ; Indian Army ;

Collaborators photographer > O. G. Rejlander ;

Techniques botanical, marine, and zoological micrography, etching, watercolour, drawing ; anthropological photography ;

Sample(s) http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2009.html ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History London ; www.encyclopedia.com ;

Published sources A. L. Rice in Oxford DNB ; Obit. in: Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899: 263 ; Lapage 1961: 42 ; Sawyer 1971: 196 ; Lack: Eden 2008 ; Indian Botanical Paintings (1980) ; J. Smith: Charles Darwin & Victorian Visual Culture (Cambridge 2006: 180 & 193) ; Prodger 1998 ; R. Krauss: History of Photography 2: 302 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 1641 ;

other Marine biologist and physician; took part in oceanographic expedition for telegr. cable HMS Bulldog 1860: publ. North Atlantic Sea 1862. Sutlej & Punjab campaigns.

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