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1900-1993
Corporate body
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1673-Present
London's oldest botanic garden. Established in 1673, by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, Chelsea Physic Garden is home to over 4,500 medicinal, edible and useful plants.
Mission:
To demonstrate the medicinal, economic, cultural and environmental importance of plants to the survival and well-being of humankind.
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1943-
Author of "The Ferns of India: Enumeration, Synonyms and Distribution" (2000)
(2026) Manging Director of National Botanical Research Institute, Pteridology Department (Lucknow, India)
Person
Bertha Chandler (Mrs. C. Norman Kemp) was the first woman to obtain the degree of D.Sc. of Edinburgh University July 1915.
Q21508057; GB/NNAF/P144510
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Person
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1872-1965
Born 1872; died 1965. Plant collector
George Cave trained as a Kew gardener, graduating in 1895. In 1896 he became assistant at the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta and in 1900 was appointed Governor of the Cinchona Plantations, Mungpoo (Bengal). In 1904 he became curator of the Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling. He went on numerous plant collecting tours in Tibet, Nepal and Sikkim and some diaries from these tours are held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Sources: Desmond; Rowena Cave, ‘George Cave’s Diary, Sikkim 1906’.
D.W.