Collett, H. (Henry), 1836-1901
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Botany
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Armies--Officers
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found: Flora simlensis, 1921:t.p. (the late Col. Sir Henry Collett, K.C.B., F.L.S., Bengal Army)
found: LC data base, 8-2-89(hdg.: Collett, Henry, Sir, 1836-1901; usage: H. Collett)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 19 Apr., 2017(Collett, Sir Henry, army officer in the East India Company and botanist; born on 6 March 1836 at Thetford, Norfolk; entered the Bengal army on 8 June 1855; promoted colonel in 1884; placed by his own wish on the unemployed list on 8 June 1893; a keen student of botany; made a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1879; In retirement he worked assiduously at the Royal Botanic Gardens herbarium, Kew, and at his death was preparing a handbook of the flora of Simla, which appeared posthumously; died, unmarried, at his residence, 21 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London, on 21 December 1901) - http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32497
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1989-08-07: new
2017-04-20: revised
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