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Show 10 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN strange plants was greater than his patience in recordin existing material, it remained for Carey to complete th work. This same year (1820), Dr. Wallich was officiall directed to explore Nepal and from the discoveries mad on this journey he issued two fascicles of his Tenzame Florae Napalensis Illustratae, consisting of description and lithographic plates of Nepal plants, printed at th newly founded Asiatic Lithographic Press, Serampore 1824 and 1826, in folio. In 182 5 Dr. Wallich inspecte the forests of Western Hindostan,and in 1826 and 182 he visited the forests of Ava (Upper Burma) and Lowe Burma. Invalided home in 1828, he brought with hi abouteight thousand specimens ofrare plants. Two year later, Dr. Wallich commenced his most important work Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, in three folio volumes, Lon don, 1830, 183 1,and 1832. After four years in Englan he returned to India where,among other official duties he was sent on a mission to Assam in relation to the dis covery of the wild tea shrub. Dr. Wallich returned to hi adopted England in 1847, sccured a residence in Gowe Street, London, where he passed awa on April 28,18 54 All students of the history of Asiatic papermaking ar indebted to Dr. Nathaniel Wallich for his comprehensiv descriptions of the three species of the Dap/ne, the bar of which for hundreds of years has been one of the mos lasting and durable of Far Eastern papermaking fibers The engravings of the three species of this tree presente by Dr. Wallich in 18 20 are the most revealing that exist Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |