Finding Aid for the Alexander Gibson Handwritten Manuscript Lithograph Biomed.0264

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Alexander Gibson handwritten manuscript lithograph
Creator: Gibson, Alexander, 1800-1867
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0264
Physical Description: 1 unknown (21 pages)
Date: 1836 November 19
Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4970309 

Scope and Contents

Collection contains a lithograph of handwritten manuscript, signed "Alex. Gibson, Vaccr. Deckan, Ahmednuggur [i.e., Ahmadnagar], Novr. 19th 1836." Names of plants and substances in English and Sanskrit (Devanagri script). Stab sewn, without wrappers.
Alexander Gibson was a physician who went to India as asst. surgeon in the East India Company. In 1836 he was appointed vaccinator in Deccan and Kandesh. In 1838 he was appointed superintendent of the botanical garden at Dapuri (see Dict. Nat. Biog.).