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Biographical data

Carey, William

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1761. Died: 1834.

career:

Missionary and Orientalist, in India from 1794. Editor of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica. He is cited as the donor of a plant from Malacca (1808) to the Calcutta Bot. Gard. (cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814). Probably what he did was sending plant material from a Malacca plant cultivated in his botanic garden at Serampore.

biographical data:

Dict. Nat. Biogr. 9, p. 77; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936; J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 51, 1953, p. 867, and ibid. 54, 1956, p. 45.

	Career Biographical data
	Carey, William
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1761. Died: 1834.
	career: Missionary and Orientalist, in India from 1794. Editor of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica. He is cited as the donor of a plant from Malacca (1808) to the Calcutta Bot. Gard. (cf. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 1814). Probably what he did was sending plant material from a Malacca plant cultivated in his botanic garden at Serampore.
	biographical data: Dict. Nat. Biogr. 9, p. 77; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936; J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 51, 1953, p. 867, and ibid. 54, 1956, p. 45.