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The Papers of George Charles Wallich (1815-1899)
Catalogue reference: L MSS WAL C
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- L MSS WAL C
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Title (The name of the record)
- The Papers of George Charles Wallich (1815-1899)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848-1899
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Natural History Museum Library and Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Wallich, George Charles, 1815-1899, physician and marine biologist</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- Four boxes
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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The papers in this collection were purchased from Mr Bernard Wallich in 1985.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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The Papers of George Charles Wallich (1815-1899)