Falconer, Hugh

F.R.S., botanist and palæontologist; born at Ferres, Scotland, September 29, 1808; graduated from Aberdeen and Edinburg, receiving the degrees of M.A. and M.D. While practicing as a surgeon in India, he began palæontological explorations in the Siwalik Hills, and was made superintendent of the botanical garden at Seharanpoor and afterwards of the botanical garden at Calcutta; received the Woo last on medal (1837). He published Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis; Selec tions from the Bostan of Saadi, . Died in London, July 31, 1865. Falconer, in New York , a post-village of Chautauqua co., on D., A. V. & P., and Erie R.Rs., 32 m. S.E. of Dunkirk. Pop . (1890) 574.