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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Robert Wight</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Linnean_Society_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Linnean Society of London">FLS</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:RobertWight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/RobertWight.jpg/220px-RobertWight.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/RobertWight.jpg/330px-RobertWight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/RobertWight.jpg/440px-RobertWight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="697" data-file-height="1003" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1796-07-06</span>)</span>6 July 1796</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 May 1872<span style="display:none">(1872-05-26)</span> (aged 75)</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Drosera_burmanni00.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Drosera_burmanni00.jpg/220px-Drosera_burmanni00.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Drosera_burmanni00.jpg/330px-Drosera_burmanni00.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Drosera_burmanni00.jpg/440px-Drosera_burmanni00.jpg 2x" data-file-width="737" data-file-height="978" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Drosera_burmannii" class="mw-redirect" title="Drosera burmannii"><i>Drosera burmanni</i></a> by the artist Rungiah from "<i>Spicilegium Neilgherrense</i>"</div></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Robert Wight</b> (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a>, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Gossypium_barbadense" title="Gossypium barbadense">American cotton</a>. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. He employed Indian botanical artists to illustrate many plants collected by himself and Indian collectors he trained. Some of these illustrations were published by <a href="/wiki/William_Jackson_Hooker" title="William Jackson Hooker">William Hooker</a> in Britain, but from 1838 he published a series of illustrated works in Madras including the uncoloured, six-volume <i>Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis</i> (1838–53) and two hand-coloured, two-volume works, the <i>Illustrations of Indian Botany</i> (1838–50) and <i>Spicilegium Neilgherrense</i> (1845–51). By the time he retired from India in 1853 he had published 2464 illustrations of Indian plants. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1213917922">.mw-parser-output .botanist-bordered{border:0 solid #ddd;border-width:2px 0;padding:0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .botanist .nickname{font-weight:bold}</style><span class="botanist">The standard <a href="/wiki/List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation_(A)" title="List of botanists by author abbreviation (A)">author abbreviation</a> <span class="vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="nickname">Wight</span></span></span> is used to indicate this person as the author when <a href="/wiki/Author_citation_(botany)" title="Author citation (botany)">citing</a> a <a href="/wiki/Botanical_name" title="Botanical name">botanical name</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_work">Life and work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wight was the son of a <a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Writers_to_the_Signet" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers to the Signet">Writer to the Signet</a>) in Edinburgh who came from a line of East Lothian tenant farmers. He was born at Milton, East Lothian, the ninth of twelve siblings.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at home until the age of eleven after which he studied at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He obtained a surgeon's diploma in 1816 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He trained at Edinburgh University, studying botany under <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Rutherford" title="Daniel Rutherford">Daniel Rutherford</a> in 1816, and graduating MD in 1818.<sup id="cite_ref-linn_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-linn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been claimed that he worked as a ship's surgeon for two years and went on a few voyages, including one to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">USA</a><sup id="cite_ref-basak_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basak-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but this has been questioned.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-proclinn_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proclinn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_work_in_India">Early work in India</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early work in India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1819 Wight went to India as an Assistant Surgeon in the service of the East India Company, serving initially with the 21st (afterwards 42nd, which was later commanded by his brother Colonel James Wight) Madras Native Infantry. His devotion to botany was clear from the start and his earliest collections were made around <a href="/wiki/Samalkota" title="Samalkota">Samalkota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajahmundry" title="Rajahmundry">Rajahmundry</a> and Masulipatam in the Northern Circars in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh. After periods in the Public Cattle Depot at Mysore (<a href="/wiki/Srirangapatna" title="Srirangapatna">Seringapatam</a>) and with the 33rd Madras Native Infantry he was, in January 1826, appointed to succeed Dr James Shuter in the post of Madras Naturalist.<sup id="cite_ref-proclinn_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proclinn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1828 the Governor of Madras, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Rumbold_Lushington" title="Stephen Rumbold Lushington">Stephen Rumbold Lushington</a>, scrapped the Naturalist's post,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its collections (including Wight's own, and earlier ones of <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Russell_(herpetologist)" title="Patrick Russell (herpetologist)">Patrick Russell</a> and the Tranquebar Missionaries) were sent to the Company headquarters in London. Wight was redeployed to regimental duties as garrison surgeon at <a href="/wiki/Nagapattinam" title="Nagapattinam">Nagapattinam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-linn_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-linn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From here, in 1828, he began a productive correspondence with <a href="/wiki/William_Hooker_(botanical_illustrator)" title="William Hooker (botanical illustrator)">William Hooker</a>, Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, sending him plant specimens and drawings by his Indian artist Rungiah.<sup id="cite_ref-basak_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basak-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Earlier collections from around <a href="/wiki/Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras">Madras</a> up to <a href="/wiki/Vellore" title="Vellore">Vellore</a> and from <a href="/wiki/Samalkota" title="Samalkota">Samalkota</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rajahmundry" title="Rajahmundry">Rajahmundry</a>, sent to Professor <a href="/wiki/Robert_Graham_(botanist)" title="Robert Graham (botanist)">Robert Graham</a> in Edinburgh had been unacknowledged and, though said to have been lost at sea, are probably the Andhra Pradesh specimens which are in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Scotland">Return to Scotland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Return to Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg/220px-Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg/330px-Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg/440px-Robert_Wight_NPG.jpg 2x" data-file-width="505" data-file-height="642" /></a><figcaption>Wight in 1855 from a Maull & Polyblank albumen print (from the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">NPG</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1831, shortly after having been promoted to Surgeon, Wight took a three-year leave to Britain ‘<i>on private affairs</i>’. He took with him to London 100,000 plant specimens representing 3000-4000 species, and weighing 2 tons.<sup id="cite_ref-basak_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basak-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Wallich" title="Nathaniel Wallich">Nathaniel Wallich</a> was then in London curating the great East India Company herbarium, which contained the Madras Naturalists' collection. Wight's additions came too late and he had to identify, curate and distribute the collection on his own but Wight was fortunate to enlist the help of his old school and university friend <a href="/wiki/George_Arnott_Walker-Arnott" class="mw-redirect" title="George Arnott Walker-Arnott">George Arnott Walker-Arnott</a>, who had given up a legal career and was working as a free-lance botanist in Scotland. During this leave, Wight spent much time in Scotland where the two men worked on the collections and distributed up to 20 sets of duplicates to specialists in Britain, Europe, America and Russia. Wight & Arnott embarked on three joint publications: a Catalogue of the herbarium specimens (reproduced lithographically as was done by Wallich), a Peninsular Flora arranged according to the natural system, and a volume of monographs, mainly by other authors, of three significant plant families. Before Wight's return to India in 1834 the first two parts of the herbarium catalogue (with species numbers 1–1892), the first volume of the outstanding <i>Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis</i> (up to the family <a href="/wiki/Dipsacaceae" title="Dipsacaceae">Dipsacaceae</a> of the <a href="/wiki/De_Candolle_system" title="De Candolle system">Candollean system</a>) had been published. Shortly thereafter came the <i>Contributions to the Flora of India</i> under Wight's name, containing accounts of the families <a href="/wiki/Asclepiadoideae" title="Asclepiadoideae">Asclepiadaceae</a> (by himself and Arnott), <a href="/wiki/Cyperaceae" title="Cyperaceae">Cyperaceae</a> (by <a href="/wiki/Christian_Gottfried_Daniel_Nees_von_Esenbeck" title="Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck">Christian Nees von Esenbeck</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Asteraceae" title="Asteraceae">Compositae</a> (by <a href="/wiki/Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle" title="Augustin Pyramus de Candolle">Augustin Pyramus de Candolle</a>). Nees published Wight's <a href="/wiki/Acanthaceae" title="Acanthaceae">Acanthaceae</a> in Wallich's <i>Plantae Asiaticae Rariores</i>, but the only other botanists to intensively examine his collections were <a href="/wiki/George_Bentham" title="George Bentham">George Bentham</a>, who published Wight's <a href="/wiki/Lamiaceae" title="Lamiaceae">Labiatae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scrophulariaceae" title="Scrophulariaceae">Scrophulariaceae</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Lindley" title="John Lindley">John Lindley</a> who described some of his orchids.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_India">Return to India</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Return to India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg/170px-Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg/255px-Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg/340px-Calotropis_procera_Wight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="1224" /></a><figcaption>Illustration of <i><a href="/wiki/Calotropis" title="Calotropis">Calotropis</a></i> published in 1835</figcaption></figure> <p>Wight returned to India in 1834 as a full surgeon in the 33rd Regiment of Native Infantry at Bellary. During this period he began working on the medicinal plants of India, maintaining native botanical artists and publishing brief notes in the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Madras_Journal_of_Literature_and_Science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madras Journal of Literature and Science (page does not exist)">Madras Journal of Literature and Science</a></i> and later became the editor for the botany section of that journal.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The papers included one on the medicinal plant ‘<i>mudar</i>’ (<i><a href="/wiki/Calotropis_procera" title="Calotropis procera">Calotropis procera</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on the flora of <a href="/wiki/Courtallam" title="Courtallam">Courtallam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_botany">Economic botany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Economic botany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The recognition of Wight's botanical skills led in 1836 to his transfer to the Madras Revenue Department. The transfer was based on references from Hooker and Robert Brown, the Governor Sir <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Adam" title="Frederick Adam">Frederick Adam</a> advised by J.G. Malcolmson, and Wight was to report on agriculture and cotton. Over the next six years this work involved species such as tea, sugar cane, <a href="/wiki/Senna_(plant)" title="Senna (plant)">senna</a> and, increasingly, cotton. In 1836 he visited Ceylon for six weeks, and he reported on the resources of upland areas including the <a href="/wiki/Palani_Hills" title="Palani Hills">Palni Hills</a>. In 1841 he purchased a house in Ootacamund, which was to remain the base for his growing family until 1847. In 1842 he was appointed Superintendent of American Cotton Plantations, a post in Coimbatore that he held until his retirement in 1853.<sup id="cite_ref-proclinn_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proclinn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was a major project of the Madras Government with a spending of almost 500,000 Rupees (about £2.5 million in today's terms) to induce Indian tenant farmers (<i>ryots</i>) to grow introduced long-staple American Cotton and to process it using the <a href="/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">saw gin</a>, so that it could be exported for spinning and weaving in Manchester. The cotton was grown by ryots on farms that covered a range of soils and climatic regimes from Salem in the north to <a href="/wiki/Courtallam" title="Courtallam">Courtallam</a> in the south. Wight showed that the new cottons could be grown, though this was difficult without irrigation. The experiment was, however, deemed a failure, though largely due to economic reasons,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and long-staple cottons did not supersede indigenous diploid varieties until the early 20th century. </p><p>Wight was an early member of the Madras Agri-Horticultural Society, whose garden, next to the <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Cathedral,_Chennai" title="St. George's Cathedral, Chennai">Cathedral in Madras</a>, acted as the city's botanical garden. He acted as the Society's secretary at various times between 1839 and 1841, and edited a volume of its <i>Proceedings</i> in 1842. In India Wight published numerous letters and short papers in the <i>Madras Journal of Literature and Science</i> (1834–40), in the various publications of the Calcutta-based Agricultural and Society of India (1838–54) and the <i>Calcutta Journal of Natural History</i> (1845–6).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lithography_and_publications">Lithography and publications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Lithography and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wight_advert.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Wight_advert.jpg/220px-Wight_advert.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="352" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Wight_advert.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="486" /></a><figcaption>Advertisement for books (1846)</figcaption></figure> <p>Wight's lasting achievement was the series of illustrated publications on Indian botany. Learning from <a href="/wiki/William_Roxburgh" title="William Roxburgh">Roxburgh</a>, who had used expensive engravings, Wight decided to use cheaper lithographic techniques. He began to employ the artist Rungiah (Rungia), who was employed from possibly as early as 1826 to around 1845, and thereafter employed Govindoo. Unlike other British workers of the time, he gave credit to his artists, printing their names on all his publications of their drawings. He named a genus of orchid, <i><a href="/wiki/Govindooia" class="mw-redirect" title="Govindooia">Govindooia</a></i> (now <i><a href="/wiki/Tropidia_(plant)" title="Tropidia (plant)">Tropidia</a></i>), after Govindoo, but could not do so for Rungiah, as a genus <i>Rungia</i> already existed, described by <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Wallich" title="Nathaniel Wallich">Nathaniel Wallich</a> for an Indian plant named after the German chemist <a href="/wiki/Friedlieb_Ferdinand_Runge" title="Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge">Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge</a> (1794-1867). Wights illustrated publications included the uncoloured, six-volume <i>Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis</i> (1838–53) and two hand-coloured, two-volume works, the <i>Illustrations of Indian Botany</i> (1838–50) and <i>Spicilegium Neilgherrense</i> (1845–51).<sup id="cite_ref-linn_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-linn-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wight_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wight-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Return_to_England_and_collections">Return to England and collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Return to England and collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wight left India after retiring from service in March 1853. He returned to England with poor health and difficulty in hearing. He returned to England and bought the 66-acre estate of Grazeley Lodge near Reading. Although his intention had been to continue with taxonomic research, he got diverted into small-scale agriculture, and published very little thereafter. Eight short articles on cotton cultivation were published in the <i>Gardeners' Chronicle</i> in 1861 and as a substantial pamphlet in 1862. In 1865 Wight was a member of the committee that helped <a href="/wiki/Edward_John_Waring" title="Edward John Waring">Edward John Waring</a> edit the <i>Pharmacopoeia of India</i> (published in 1868) and in 1866 he read a paper on <i>On the Phenomenon of Vegetation in the Indian Spring</i><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the International Botanical Congress in London.<sup id="cite_ref-Noltie2005:3-24_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noltie2005:3-24-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Visiting botanists were welcomed to use his herbarium, but a new generation of botanists had become active in India, including <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker" title="Joseph Dalton Hooker">Joseph Hooker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thomson_(botanist)" title="Thomas Thomson (botanist)">Thomas Thomson</a>. He donated his vast collection of duplicates to the <a href="/wiki/Kew_Herbarium" title="Kew Herbarium">Kew Herbarium</a>, which included 3108 species of higher plants and 94 of ferns, distributed in 1869/70 in 20 sets to herbaria in Europe, Russia, North America, South Africa, Australia and, for the first time, to two South Asian herbaria (Calcutta and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Botanical_Gardens,_Peradeniya" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya">Peradeniya</a>). In October 1871, shortly before his death Wight gave his best specimens to Kew, which included the types of the species described in his publications.<sup id="cite_ref-Noltie2005:3-24_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Noltie2005:3-24-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other herbaria caring for Wight's specimens include the <a href="/wiki/National_Herbarium_of_Victoria" title="National Herbarium of Victoria">National Herbarium of Victoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens_Victoria" title="Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria">Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Plantentuin_Meise" class="mw-redirect" title="Plantentuin Meise">Plantentuin Meise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bionomia_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bionomia-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wight married Rosa Harriet(te), the third daughter of a senior Madras surgeon, Lacey Gray Ford in <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Cathedral,_Chennai" title="St. George's Cathedral, Chennai">St George's Cathedral, Madras</a>, on 17 January 1838. The couple had four sons and a daughter who survived into adulthood, and two daughters who died in infancy. Wight died on 26 May 1872 at Grazeley Lodge and was buried in the parish church of Grazeley where he had long been a churchwarden.<sup id="cite_ref-proclinn_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proclinn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike some of his other medical contemporaries Wight was not successful financially, he left moveable estate worth less than £2000 (about £200,000 in today's terms),<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Grazeley had to be sold immediately after his death. Descendants of the daughter of his eldest son James survive although they do not bear his surname. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition_and_legacy">Recognition and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Recognition and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wight was elected a <a href="/wiki/Linnean_Society_of_London" title="Linnean Society of London">Fellow of the Linnaean Society</a> in 1832 and, in the same year, as a member of the oldest scientific society in Europe, the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy of Sciences Leopoldina">Academia Caesarea Leopoldina-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum</a>. After his return to Britain, in 1855, he was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of London. In India he was a member of the Agri-Horticultural Societies of Madras and India. He corresponded with the leading botanists of his time including George Arnott Walker-<a href="/wiki/George_Arnott_Walker-Arnott" class="mw-redirect" title="George Arnott Walker-Arnott">Arnott</a>, Sir William <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker" title="Joseph Dalton Hooker">Hooker</a>, Joseph Hooker, William <a href="/wiki/William_Griffith_(botanist)" title="William Griffith (botanist)">Griffith</a>, Nathaniel <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Wallich" title="Nathaniel Wallich">Wallich</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Bentham" title="George Bentham">George Bentham</a>, Christian Gottfried <a href="/wiki/Christian_Gottfried_Daniel_Nees_von_Esenbeck" title="Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck">Nees</a> von Esenbeck, John Forbes <a href="/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle" title="John Forbes Royle">Royle</a>, John <a href="/wiki/John_Lindley" title="John Lindley">Lindley</a>, Carl Philipp von <a href="/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Philipp_von_Martius" title="Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius">Martius</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Stevens_Henslow" title="John Stevens Henslow">John Stevens Henslow</a>, William <a href="/wiki/William_Munro_(botanist)" title="William Munro (botanist)">Munro</a> and Robert <a href="/wiki/Robert_Brown_(botanist,_born_1773)" title="Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)">Brown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-basak_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basak-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-proclinn_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proclinn-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eponymy">Eponymy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Eponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In recognition of his contribution to Botany, Wight is one of the most highly commemorated of all Indian botanists. Wight named many plants after his botanical collaborators in India and Europe. In 1830 Wallich dedicated the genus <i><a href="/wiki/Wightia_(plant)" title="Wightia (plant)">Wightia</a></i> to him and 256 species have been dedicated to him though 19 of these were <a href="/wiki/Nomen_illegitimum" title="Nomen illegitimum">illegitimate</a> nomenclaturally, and the number is far greater when other combinations made from the basionyms are considered. In addition to flowering plants, this number includes 6 ferns, 3 bryophytes, 2 red algae and one each of clubmoss, brown alga, lichen and basidiomycete.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A sample of species named after Wight include:</p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WightPlate2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/WightPlate2.jpg/220px-WightPlate2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/WightPlate2.jpg/330px-WightPlate2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/WightPlate2.jpg/440px-WightPlate2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2920" data-file-height="4056" /></a><figcaption>A plate by Rungiah</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aerva_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aerva wightii (page does not exist)">Aerva wightii</a></i> Hook. f.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Agrostis_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agrostis wightii (page does not exist)">Agrostis wightii</a></i> Nees ex Steud.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anaphalis_wightiana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anaphalis wightiana (page does not exist)">Anaphalis wightiana</a></i> (DC.) DC.</li> <li><i>Anaphyllum wightii</i> Schott</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrographis_wightiana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrographis wightiana (page does not exist)">Andrographis wightiana</a></i> Arn. ex Nees</li> <li><i>Andropogon wightianus</i> Nees ex Steud.l</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anisochilus_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anisochilus wightii (page does not exist)">Anisochilus wightii</a></i> Hook. f.</li> <li><i>Anotis wightiana</i> (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Hook. f.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arenga_wightii" title="Arenga wightii">Arenga wightii</a></i> Griff.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arisaema_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arisaema wightii (page does not exist)">Arisaema wightii</a></i> Schott</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arundinaria_wightian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arundinaria wightian (page does not exist)">Arundinaria wightian</a>a</i> Nees</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beilschmiedia_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beilschmiedia wightii (page does not exist)">Beilschmiedia wightii</a></i> (Nees) Benth. ex Hook. f.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blumea_wightiana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blumea wightiana (page does not exist)">Blumea wightiana</a></i> DC.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calophyllum_wightianum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Calophyllum wightianum (page does not exist)">Calophyllum wightianum</a></i> Wall. ex Planch. & Triana</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carex_wightiana" title="Carex wightiana">Carex wightiana</a></i> Nees</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Celtis_philippensis" title="Celtis philippensis">Celtis wightii</a></i> Planch.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ceropegia_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ceropegia wightii (page does not exist)">Ceropegia wightii</a></i> Grah. ex Wight</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chloris_wightiana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chloris wightiana (page does not exist)">Chloris wightiana</a></i> Nees ex Steud.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cinnamomum_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cinnamomum wightii (page does not exist)">Cinnamomum wightii</a></i> Meissn.</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cirrhopetalum_wightii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cirrhopetalum wightii (page does not exist)">Cirrhopetalum wightii</a></i> Thwaites</li></ul> <p>Variants include Wt. and R.W. Some of his early contributions were mistakenly published by William Hooker with his name as "Richard Wight".<sup id="cite_ref-basak_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-basak-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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<span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoyle._J._Forbes1857" class="citation journal cs1">Royle. 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Forbes (1857). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/madrasjournalofl1818madr#page/78/mode/1up/">"Observations on provincial exhibition and the improvements of the resources of the several districts of the Madras Presidency"</a>. <i>The Madras Journal of Literature and Science</i>. <b>18</b>: 64–79.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Madras+Journal+of+Literature+and+Science&rft.atitle=Observations+on+provincial+exhibition+and+the+improvements+of+the+resources+of+the+several+districts+of+the+Madras+Presidency&rft.volume=18&rft.pages=64-79&rft.date=1857&rft.au=Royle.+J.+Forbes&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fmadrasjournalofl1818madr%23page%2F78%2Fmode%2F1up%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Noltie (2005):8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Noltie (2005):27-67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWight,_Robert1835" class="citation journal cs1">Wight, Robert (1835). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46434553">"Observations on Mudar (Calotropis procera), with some remarks on the medical properties of the natural order Asclepiadeae"</a>. <i>Madras Journal of Literature and Science</i>. <b>2</b>: 70–85.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Madras+Journal+of+Literature+and+Science&rft.atitle=Observations+on+Mudar+%28Calotropis+procera%29%2C+with+some+remarks+on+the+medical+properties+of+the+natural+order+Asclepiadeae&rft.volume=2&rft.pages=70-85&rft.date=1835&rft.au=Wight%2C+Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F46434553&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWight,_R.1835" class="citation journal cs1">Wight, R. (1835). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46434553">"Observations on Mudar (Calotropis procera), with some remarks on the medical properties of the natural order Asclepiadeae"</a>. <i>Madras Journal of Literature and Science</i>. <b>2</b>: 70–86.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Madras+Journal+of+Literature+and+Science&rft.atitle=Observations+on+Mudar+%28Calotropis+procera%29%2C+with+some+remarks+on+the+medical+properties+of+the+natural+order+Asclepiadeae&rft.volume=2&rft.pages=70-86&rft.date=1835&rft.au=Wight%2C+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F46434553&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWight,_R.1835" class="citation journal cs1">Wight, R. (1835). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46434877">"Observations on the flora of Courtallum"</a>. <i>Madras Journal of Literature and Science</i>. <b>2</b>: 380–391.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Madras+Journal+of+Literature+and+Science&rft.atitle=Observations+on+the+flora+of+Courtallum&rft.volume=2&rft.pages=380-391&rft.date=1835&rft.au=Wight%2C+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F46434877&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWheeler,_J._Talboys1862" class="citation book cs1">Wheeler, J. Talboys (1862). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/handbooktocotton00wheerich#page/n80/mode/1up/"><i>Hand-book to the cotton cultivation in the Madras Presidency</i></a>. Madras: J. Higginbotham. pp. 45–48.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hand-book+to+the+cotton+cultivation+in+the+Madras+Presidency.&rft.place=Madras&rft.pages=45-48&rft.pub=J.+Higginbotham&rft.date=1862&rft.au=Wheeler%2C+J.+Talboys&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fhandbooktocotton00wheerich%23page%2Fn80%2Fmode%2F1up%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoyle,_J._Forbes1851" class="citation book cs1">Royle, J. Forbes (1851). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/onculturecommerc00royl#page/472/mode/1up/search/Wight"><i>On the culture and commerce of cotton in India, and elsewhere</i></a>. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. pp. 472–543.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=On+the+culture+and+commerce+of+cotton+in+India%2C+and+elsewhere&rft.place=London&rft.pages=472-543&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder%2C+%26+Co.&rft.date=1851&rft.au=Royle%2C+J.+Forbes&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fonculturecommerc00royl%23page%2F472%2Fmode%2F1up%2Fsearch%2FWight&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See bibliography in Noltie (2005):27-43.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wight-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Wight_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWight1853" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Wight, Robert (1853). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5IcCAAAAYAAJ"><i>Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis; or, Figures of Indian plants By Robert Wight</i></a>. Vol. Item notes: v.6 (Original from Harvard University, Digitized 22 May 2007 ed.). Madras: P.R. Hunt American Mission Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Icones+plantarum+Indiae+orientalis%3B+or%2C+Figures+of+Indian+plants+By+Robert+Wight&rft.place=Madras&rft.edition=Original+from+Harvard+University%2C+Digitized+22+May+2007&rft.pub=P.R.+Hunt+American+Mission+Press&rft.date=1853&rft.aulast=Wight&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5IcCAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Noltie, H. J. (1999) Indian botanical drawings 1793-1868 from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See book 2 of Noltie (2007).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWight,_Robert1866" class="citation journal cs1">Wight, Robert (1866). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26049253">"On the phenomena of vegetation in the Indian spring"</a>. <i>Gardeners' Chronicle</i>. <b>1866</b>: 517.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Gardeners%27+Chronicle&rft.atitle=On+the+phenomena+of+vegetation+in+the+Indian+spring&rft.volume=1866&rft.pages=517&rft.date=1866&rft.au=Wight%2C+Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F26049253&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Noltie2005:3-24-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Noltie2005:3-24_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Noltie2005:3-24_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Noltie(2005):3-24.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bionomia-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bionomia_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bionomia.net/Q1375864/deposited-at">"Specimens deposited at"</a>. <i>Bionomia</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 November</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bionomia&rft.atitle=Specimens+deposited+at.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbionomia.net%2FQ1375864%2Fdeposited-at&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnon.1838" class="citation journal cs1">Anon. (1838). "Births, Marriages and Deaths". <i>The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany</i>. <b>26</b>: 112.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Asiatic+Journal+and+Monthly+Miscellany&rft.atitle=Births%2C+Marriages+and+Deaths&rft.volume=26&rft.pages=112&rft.date=1838&rft.au=Anon.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="ID" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Desmond, Ray. "Wight, Robert". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F29370">10.1093/ref:odnb/29370</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Wight%2C+Robert&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F29370&rft.au=Desmond%2C+Ray&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For a complete list see Noltie(2005):476-516.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cited_references">Cited references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Cited references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBasak1981" class="citation journal cs1">Basak, RK (November 1981). "Robert Wight and His Botanical Studies in India". <i>Taxon</i>. <b>30</b> (4): 784–793. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1220080">10.2307/1220080</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1220080">1220080</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Taxon&rft.atitle=Robert+Wight+and+His+Botanical+Studies+in+India&rft.volume=30&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=784-793&rft.date=1981-11&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F1220080&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F1220080%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Basak&rft.aufirst=RK&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Noltie, H. J. (2007) <i>Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo</i>. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. <ul><li><i>The Life and Work of Robert Wight</i>. (Book 1) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781906129033" title="Special:BookSources/9781906129033">9781906129033</a></li> <li><i>Botanical Drawings by Rungiah & Govindoo: the Wight Collection</i>. (Book 2) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781906129002" title="Special:BookSources/9781906129002">9781906129002</a></li> <li><i>Journeys in Search of Robert Wight</i> (Book 3). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-906129-02-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-906129-02-6">978-1-906129-02-6</a></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNoltie,_H._J.2005" class="citation book cs1">Noltie, H. J. (2005). <i>The Botany of Robert Wight</i>. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3906166406" title="Special:BookSources/3906166406"><bdi>3906166406</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Botany+of+Robert+Wight&rft.pub=A.R.G.+Gantner+Verlag&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=3906166406&rft.au=Noltie%2C+H.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Noltie, H. J. (2005a) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ca1-tls.edcdn.com/documents/Special-Issue-6-Robert-Wight-and-the-Illustration-of-Indian-Botany.pdf">Robert Wight and the Illustration of Indian Botany. The Hooker Lecture.</a> The Linnean. Special Issue No 6.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_sources">Other sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Curtis' Botanical Magazine. 1931. <i>Dedications and Portraits 1827-1927</i>. Compiled by Earnest Nelmes and Wm. Cuthbertson. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCleghorn,_H.F.C.1873" class="citation journal cs1">Cleghorn, H.F.C. (1873). "Obituary notice of Dr Robert Wight, F.R.S.". <i>Transactions of the Botanical Society</i>. <b>11</b>: 363–388.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Transactions+of+the+Botanical+Society&rft.atitle=Obituary+notice+of+Dr+Robert+Wight%2C+F.R.S.&rft.volume=11&rft.pages=363-388&rft.date=1873&rft.au=Cleghorn%2C+H.F.C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26129343">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'The Late Dr. Robert Wight, FRS"</a>. <i>Gardener's Chronicle</i>. <b>50</b> (22): 731–732. 1872.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Gardener%27s+Chronicle&rft.atitle=%27The+Late+Dr.+Robert+Wight%2C+FRS&rft.volume=50&rft.issue=22&rft.pages=731-732&rft.date=1872&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F26129343&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Wight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Gray, Asa. 1873. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753002152830#page/n408/mode/1up/search/India">Scientific Intelligence</a></i>. American Journal of Science and Arts 5, ser. 3. p. 395.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_King_(botanist)" title="George King (botanist)">King, Sir George</a>. 1899. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30383861">The Early History of Indian botany</a></i>. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. pp. 904–919.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Wight&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/134">Scanned works of Robert Wight</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/contributionsto00wighgoog">Contributions to the botany of India</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a 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