Assistant surgeon, East India Company, 1827. Superintendent of the Darjeeling station, 1840–62, with responsibility for political relations between the British and the Sikkim government. Wrote many papers on Himalayan geography. Travelled with Joseph Dalton Hooker in Sikkim in 1849, and was imprisoned with Hooker by the Sikkim Rajah.
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