BIRDWOOD, SIR GEORGE CHRISTOPHEIt MOLESWORTH, M.D. of Edinburgh University, K.C.S.I., a medical officer of the Bombay army. In 1856 ho 'was present at the capture of Mobarn marsh, for which ho received tho medal and clasp given for the Persian war of 1856-57. In 1857 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physi ology in Grant Medical College, and until his leav ing India ho continued in the chairs of Anatomy, Physiology, Botany, and Materia Medico. He was appointed Curator of the Government Central Museum at Bombay, and, with the assistance of Dr. Mau Dhajce, ho established the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Victoria Gardens in Bombay. He was honorary secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Agri-Horti cultural Society of Western India. In 1867 he was sent as Special Commissioner for the Govern ment to the Universal Exhibition held in Paris. Addresses were presented to him on his finally leaving India in 1869, by the Asiatic Society, the Agri-Horticultural Society, the University of Bombay, of which he was then Registrar, and the students of Grant Medical College. On the pro
clamation of the Queen as Empress of India, January 1, 1877, he was appointed to the Com panionship of the Star of India. He has devoted himself to writing on Indian subjects and on Indian art. In 1870 he contributed a paper to the Linnean Society on the Genus Boswellia. It is the record of the discovery of the frankin cense trees of the Somali country, made by him in conjunction with Colonel Playfair, then Resident at Aden. In 1878 he wrote the Handbook to the Indian Court at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 ; and his Handbook on the Industrial Arts of India has attracted abiding attention to the traditional handicrafts of India, and created a widespread demand for them all over Europe and in America. He is the author of the Vegetable Products of Bombay, a very valuable book on the economic products, which has gone through two editions.