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- ↑ "List of Past Gold Medal Winners" (PDF). Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ↑ Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 by D. G. Crawford
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Thomson.
