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Show PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN 10 particularlocality as the «Tibet Paper Tree," the «Nepa Paper Tree," and the «Paper Tree of Tonkin." In vie of the confusion of species and geographical localities i is suggested that all paper made from this bark be calle «Daphne paper," without regard to the specific species microscopic and chemical analysis does not reveal fro which one of the three species a sheet of paper has bee made. Although the bark of this tree has probably bee used for making paper since the eighth or ninth century it remained for Dr. Wallich, as late as 18 20, to describ the three species and give the finest botanical engraving of these useful and important plants Nathaniel Wallich was born in Gopenhagen, Januar 28, 1786. Having graduated as a docor of medicine i his native city, he entered the Danish medical service an in 1807, when but twenty-one years of age, he becam surgeon to the Danish settlement in Serampore, Bengal India. In 1813 when this settlement fell under the jurisdiction of the East India Company, Dr. N. Wallich, wit otherofficials, was permitted to enter the Englishservice Although at firstattached to the medical staff; Dr. Wallichwas,in 1815,appointed to thesuperintendency of th Calcutta Botanical Gardens. He at once distinguishe himselfby colleéting and describing new plants and distributing specimens to the chicf gardens of England. I 1820, Dr. Wallich, in collaboration with William Care (1761-1834),Baptist missionary, began the publicatio of Roxburgh's F/ora Indica, but as his zeal in colledtin Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights resarved |