Edward Blyth, John M'Clelland, the curatorship of the Asiatic Society's collections and the origins of the Calcutta journal of natural history .

MATHEW, JOHN

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dc.contributor.author	MATHEW, JOHN	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-15T11:28:32Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-15T11:28:32Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Archives of Natural History, 42(2), 265-278.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0260-9541	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1755-6260	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2374
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2015.0311	en_US
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Edinburgh University Press	en_US
dc.subject	Edward Blyth	en_US
dc.subject	Asiatic Society's collections	en_US
dc.subject	Origins of the Calcutta	en_US
dc.subject	Mid-nineteenth century	en_US
dc.subject	2015	en_US
dc.title	Edward Blyth, John M'Clelland, the curatorship of the Asiatic Society's collections and the origins of the Calcutta journal of natural history .	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.identifier.sourcetitle	Archives of Natural History	en_US
dc.publication.originofpublisher	Foreign	en_US