The 150th Anniversary Volume of the Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta

Thomson was also President of the Agri-Horticultural Society (1859-1860) the co-adjutor of Sir Joseph Hooker in the collection and distribution of an extensive and well-known herbarium of East Indian plants and the joint author of the first volume of the Flora Indica. [...] Potato-growing was initiated by the 10agency of this garden and the cultivation of the quinine cinchonas of the Andes was originated and carried to a successful issue in the plantations in the Darjeeling district. [...] By the introduction of some of the best kinds of sugarcane from the West Indies and the dissemination of these to all parts of the country a considerable improvement was effected both in the quality and quantity of the sugar crop of the country. [...] The scientific results embodied in the monumental publications of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden the Records of the Botanical Survey of India and other miscellaneous books and papers written by the Scientific officers of this institution are of worldwide interest. [...] I have the honour to send you greetings and congratulations from the Department of Botany in the University of Glasgow on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta.