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Sir James Cosmo Melvill KCB FRS (8 June 1792 – 23 July 1861) was a British administrator who served as the last secretary of the East India Company.
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James Cosmo Melvill FLS FZS (1 July 1845 – 4 November 1929) was a British botanist and malacologist who collected plants in Europe and North America.
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James Cosmo Melvill (1792-1861) (‘JCM I’) JCM I was born in Guernsey, the third son of Philip I and Elizabeth, but the first to survive to adulthood. In 1811, through family connection with the Anstruthers (Philip’s cousin Sir John Anstruther (1753-1811) had b een Chief Justice of Bengal from 1797-1808 [1] ) his father secured him a ...
Sir James Cosmo Melvill (1792-1861), Civil servant in India. Sitter in 1 portrait. Artist. John James Napier (active 1856-1876), Artist. Artist or producer of 3 portraits. Related works. NPG 4825a: Hester Jean Frances, Lady Melvill (companion portrait) Linked publications. Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 315.
James Cosmo Melvill, of Meole Brace Hall, Shrewsbury, died on Nov. 4 1929. Melvill's collection consisted of over 22,500 species, including an extensive entomological collection of British butterflies, wasps, flies, and dragonflies.
Search for specimens collected by James Cosmo Melvill.. references and external links . Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol 19 (2),p 59-61 Manchester Memoirs, Vol 61, (1917), No 5 ‘On the contents of a herbarium of British and foreign Plants for presentation to the Victoria University, Manchester’ by Charles Bailey.
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