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http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2374| Title: | Edward Blyth, John M'Clelland, the curatorship of the Asiatic Society's collections and the origins of the Calcutta journal of natural history . |
| Authors: | MATHEW, JOHN Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Keywords: | Edward Blyth Asiatic Society's collections Origins of the Calcutta Mid-nineteenth century 2015 |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2015 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Citation: | Archives of Natural History, 42(2), 265-278. |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the origins of the Calcutta journal of natural history (1841–1848) and the search from the 1830s for a permanent curator for the collections of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Edward Blyth (1810–1873) was appointed, even though John M'Clelland (or McClelland) (1805–1883), who founded the Calcutta journal of natural history, had acted as part-time curator of the collections for two years before Blyth's arrival in Calcutta. An analysis of the Society and the journal allows reconsideration of the significance of natural history in India in the mid-nineteenth century. |
| URI: | http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2374 https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0311 |
| ISSN: | 0260-9541 1755-6260 |
| Appears in Collections: | JOURNAL ARTICLES |
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