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====Edward Bulkley====
Dr Edward Bulkley was a Principal Surgeon 1692-1709 when he transferred to the Civil Service as Member of Council. He resigned in 1713 and died August 1714 at Madras according to this [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortstgeorgemad02penngoog#page/n257/mode/1up cemetery record]. He is mentioned in the "Third Book of Samuel Brown" (see above) and also on this [http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=422 page] from the Linnean Society of London website, collecting plants in Bengal and Burma 1702-8, (where the spelling Bulkeley is used). He is probably the Mr Buckly, Chief Surgeon at Fort St George who sent a collection of Chinese medical instruments to the Royal Society, mentioned in this [http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/20/236-247/390.full.pdf+html article] ''Phil. Trans. 1 January 1698 vol. 20 no. 236-247'' 390-392. The autopsy mentioned above is the first recorded medico-legal autopsy performed in India.
====Francis Buchanan–Hamilton====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Buchanan-Hamilton Francis Buchanan–Hamilton] 1762-1829. (WilipediaWikipedia) He was in the Bengal Medical Service from 1794 to 1815 . He succeeded William Roxburgh to become the Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden in 1814, but had to return to Britain in 1815 due to ill health.<br>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=6vPmAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar Volume 1''] [http://books.google.com/books?id=ffTmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Volume 2''] [http://books.google.com/books?id=JvXmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Volume 3''] by Francis Buchanan MD 1807 Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=67gWAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal''] by Francis Hamilton (formerly Buchanan) MD 1819 Google Books
====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.
<br>[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
====Nathaniel Wallich====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Wallich Nathaniel Wallich] 1786-1854 (Wikipedia) (Also spelt Wallick in the East-India Register) He was a Danish Surgeon at the Danish settlement of [[Serampore]], near Calcutta from 1808. He became an Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service from 1814. He followed Francis Buchan-Hamilton as Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, a position he held until he retired in 1846.
