​BIDIE, GEORGE (1830–⁠)

Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and University: entered the Madras Medical Service, 1856: served in the mutiny: Professor of Botany, Madras Medical College: Superintendent of Lunatic Asylum, 1866–70: Secretary of head office of Medical Department, 1870–3: in charge of the Government Central Museum, 1872–85: Surgeon - General of Madras, 1886–90: discovered a preventive for insect pest in coffee plantations: author of several works, including Handbook of Practical Pharmacy, Nilgiri Parasitical Plants, etc.: C.I.E., 1883.