Nathaniel Wolff Wallich
Surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India (1786-1854) · Denmark · On the map · Doctors · Died at 68
Nathaniel Wolff Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company.
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He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him.
