Deep in the Kew Gardens archive some years ago, Henry Noltie found a drawing that had been cut in half. It was a large watercolour of a salak palm (Salacca zalacca). He didn’t think he’d ever find the ...

The story of empire is the story of humans—that is how it is taught and generally understood. But what if it is, in fact, the story of plants? Poppies, pepper, nutmeg, cotton, tea—the British Empire ...

"These are palimpsests that combine art and science,” says taxonomist, curator and botanical historian Henry J. Noltie by way of explaining the paintings we are looking at. Created in the 18th and ...

New Delhi: A new book on the history of India’s botanical art brings to light forgotten stories and rare botanical paintings from India. Flora Indica: Recovering Lost Stories from Kew’s Indian ...

A botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, Henry Noltie, who was on a visit to the Nilgiris, spoke of the tremendous threats faced by the forests in the Nilgiris and also of the destructive ...

Reproductions of botanical drawings made in the 1840s and 1850s, by several different Indian artists for the East India Company surgeon, and pioneering Forest Conservator, Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

ON a bitter mid-winter's day in 1867, as snow storms strafed the countryside, Alexander Gibson was carried the half mile from his mansion to the bleak kirkyard at Stracathro, near Forfar, to be laid ...