GIBSON

Alexander . b. Laurencekirk, Kin car dines hire 24 Oct. 1800; M.D. Edin.; a istant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; pa ed in Hindu stan i, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60; F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of Forest Reports Bombay 1849–55; Bombay Flora 1861; A handbook to forests of Bombay 1863. d. 16 Jany. 1867. Proc. Linnean Soc. (1866–67) p. 33.