Catalogue description The Papers of George Charles Wallich (1815-1899)

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Title: The Papers of George Charles Wallich (1815-1899)
Date: 1848-1899
Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Wallich, George Charles, 1815-1899, physician and marine biologist
Physical description: Four boxes
Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers in this collection were purchased from Mr Bernard Wallich in 1985.
Subjects:
  • Natural sciences
Administrative / biographical background:

Wallich was born in Calcutta, the eldest son of Nathaniel Wallich (1776-1854), the botanist, and educated in England, graduating M.D. from Edinburgh University in 1836. He joined the Indian Army as a surgeon in 1838, and saw service in Bengal and the Punjab before being invalided out in 1857 with the rank of Surgeon-Major. Wallich became an authority on the structure and distribution of the Protozoa, and was appointed naturalist to H M Bulldog on a surveying expedition in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1860. He published papers and books as a result of the expedition, and engaged in a series of controversies over the significance of his observations. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862, and awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1898.
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