John Lindsay StewartFRSEFRCSFRGSFLS (13 December 1831 – 7 July 1873) was a 19th-century Scottish botanist remembered for his conservation of Indian forests.
In 1858, he joined the expedition to Yusufzai and served some time with the Punjab regiments. In 1860, he left his medical duties to become Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Saharunpore under the jurisdiction of William Jameson, delegating for him during a year of absence. He had duties overseeing the government tea plantations in the region.[3]
Following Jameson's return in 1861 he returned to medicine as a civilian surgeon in Bijnour. In 1864, he was put in charge of a programme of forest conservation in the Five Rivers region, continuing in this role for five years, and establishing systems echoed in many later conservation projects.
He was allowed to visit England in 1872 to pursue the production of a forest flora of the northern and central region.[5] He died following a nervous breakdown (claimed by some to be the result of a rejection of his work by J.D. Hooker[6]) at the Hill Sanatorium in Dalhousie in India.[7] His position as the Conservator of Forests in Punjab was replaced by Baden Henry Powell.[8]
Publicationsedit
Punjab Plants (1869)
The forest flora of north-west and central India (1874, commenced by Stewart but completed by Dietrich Brandis)
Referencesedit
^Noltie, H. J. (7 August 2011). "A botanical group in Lahore, 1864". Archives of Natural History. 38 (2): 267–277. doi:10.3366/anh.2011.0033. PMID 22165442. Retrieved 7 August 2022 – via PubMed.
^"Births and deaths". Dundee Courier. 19 August 1873. p. 2.
^Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical Society: January 1874.
^(PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
^"[Notices]". Hampshire Telegraph. 29 June 1872. p. 4.
^Whitehead, P.J.P.; Talwar, P.K. (1976). "Francis Day (1829-1889) and his collections of Indian fishes". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series. 5 (1): 1–232. doi:10.5962/p.314507.
^"University of Glasgow: Biography of John Lindsay Stewart".
^"[notices]". Morning Post. 8 September 1873. p. 2.
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