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====Patrick Russell====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Russell_(herpetologist) Patrick Russell] 1726-1805 (Wikipedia) came to India in 1781. He had previously worked as a physician for the British [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant_Company Levant Company] (Wikipedia) at its chief factory (trading post) at Aleppo (Syria) 1750-1771. In 1785 was appointed as the East India Company's 'Botanist and Naturalist' at Madras, following Koenig's death. He retired in 1791 and returned to England. Russell's viper the venomous snake, whose toxicity is second only to the cobra, is named after him. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h6xSzhlmNdoC&pg=PA331 Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860] by Richard H Grove page 331, including the footnote gives more details including that he was initially an assistant surgeon. [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/01/23/stories/2006012300070500.htm “The first snakeman of India”] The Hindu [http://www.cmj.slma.lk/cmj4602/39.htm “Russell of Russell's viper fame”] by R L Jayakody ''The Ceylon Medical Journal Volume 46, No 2, 2001 June''
====William Roxburgh====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roxburgh William Roxburgh] 1751-1815. (Wikipedia) He joined the Madras Medical Service as an assistant surgeon in 1776 and became a surgeon in 1780. He succeeded Patrick Russell as Naturalist to the Madras Government. He later became Superintendant of the Calcutta Botanical Garden 1793-1814 where he was succeeded by Francis Buchan Hamilton.
[http://books.google.com/books?id=LFw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Flora indica, or descriptions of Indian plants,Volume 1'' by William Roxburgh 1820 [http://books.google.com/books?id=V1w-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Volume 2'' 1824 [http://books.google.com/books?id=focCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR6 ''Volume 3'' 1832
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