https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=T._F._Bourdillon 2026-09-07T19:49:32Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=T._F._Bourdillon&diff=42935&oldid=prev 2020-10-01T11:48:48Z

<p>Alter: url. URLs might have been internationalized/anonymized. Add: isbn. | You can <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">use this bot</a> yourself. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs here</a>. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | All pages linked from cached copy of User:AManWithNoPlan/sandbox2 | via #UCB_webform_linked</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}<br /> [[File:T F Bourdillon.jpg|thumb|Portrait from the Teak Museum, Nilambur. ]]<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Thomas Fulton Bourdillon&#039;&#039;&#039; (1 May 1849, [[Madras]] – 19 December 1930, [[Bexhill-on-Sea]]) was a [[British Raj|British-Indian]] [[botanist]], who worked as a [[Conservator of Forests]] in the princely state of [[Travancore]].&lt;ref&gt;{{cite journal|title=Obituary: T. F. Bourdillon|journal=Nature|volume=127|issue=3192|page=29|year=1931|doi=10.1038/127029a0|doi-access=free}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book |last1=Desmond |first1=Ray |title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists |date=1994 |publisher=Taylor &amp; Francis |page=389 |isbn=9781466573871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0FZDwAAQBAJ&amp;q=Thomas+Fulton+Bourdillon&amp;pg=PA390 |accessdate=7 July 2020}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> He came to Travancore (at present Southern Kerala) as a planter in 1871 and was appointed by the Travancore Durbar in 1886 as a special forest officer to explore the forests and to report on their resources. In 1891 he was appointed as Conservator of Forests, a position he retained till his retirement in June 1908. He was a keen botanist and an all-round forest officer. During his period, he brought the Department to a high state of efficiency.<br /> <br /> In 1908, he authored the first book on the trees of the region &#039;&#039;The Forest Trees of Travancore&#039;&#039;. In 1901 he was admitted a Fellow of the Linnean Society.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflin18981902linn|title=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London : Linnean Society of London : Free Download &amp; Streaming : Internet Archive|work=Internet Archive|accessdate=25 December 2014|publisher=London, Published for the Linnean Society of London by Academic Press [etc.]}}&lt;/ref&gt; He also wrote about bird life to [[Allan Octavian Hume]] and contributed many articles on forestry to the &#039;&#039;Indian Forester&#039;&#039;. He worked in close association with other naturalists of his time including [[Richard Henry Beddome|R. H. Beddome]] and [[Harold S. Ferguson]].<br /> <br /> Today there exists in [[Arienkavu]] on the northern side of [[Shendurney]] valley a place called Bourdillon&#039;s Plot which was the location of the first plot where [[teak]] was planted using stumps in 1891.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.keralaforest.org/html/general/index.htm |title=Kerala Forest|publisher=Keralaforest.org|accessdate=26 March 2014}}&lt;/ref&gt; This technique was developed to grow teak sustainably for the needs of the navy. This attempt to grow teak for the needs of the [[Royal Navy]] was started by Mr. [[Henry Valentine Conolly|H. V. Conolly]], the then Collector of Malabar.<br /> <br /> The tree species Aglaia bourdillonii, bird subspecies [[great eared-nightjar]] &#039;&#039;Eurostopodus macrotis bourdilloni&#039;&#039; and the [[Common blackbird|blackbird]] &#039;&#039;Turdus merula bourdilloni&#039;&#039; are named after him.<br /> <br /> {{Botanist|Bourd.}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [https://archive.org/details/ForestTreesOfTravancore Bourdillon TF (1908) The Forest Trees of Travancore. Travancore Government, Trivandrum.]<br /> * [https://archive.org/details/TravancoreForests Bourdillon, T F (1892) Report on the Forest of Travancore. Travancore State.]<br /> &lt;!--Bourdillon T F 1893 Report on the Forests of Travancore. Trivandrum--&gt;<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourdillon, T F}}<br /> [[Category:Indian conservationists]]<br /> [[Category:1849 births]]<br /> [[Category:1930 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Naturalists of British India]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-bio-stub}}<br /> {{environmentalist-stub}}</div>

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