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[From By Any Other Name, March 2020, p. 11-12:] William Roxburgh (1751–1815) The first paid Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden (now the A.J.C. Bose Indian Botanic Garden) was William Roxburgh, the ‘Father of Indian Botany’, who was summoned to Calcutta from the Coromandel Coast in 1793.....For the next twenty years, from the house he built for himself that stands to this day in the Botanic Garden, he continued his documentation of the Indian flora both in words and, by means of artists, in pictures. The artists he had trained in the south probably started out as chintz painters and at least one of them was taken to Calcutta, where Roxburgh built up a team of botanical artists. Their work eventually totalled some 2500 drawings, the ‘Roxburgh Icones’. His own set is still at Sibpur and a facsimile set that he sent to London is now at Kew