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One of the most influential contributions was his biogeographical classification of British India which was based on his studies of the Cyperaceae. This was developed from Hooker's earlier biogeographical classification. He extended the work to a world biogeography in 1892 which agreed largely with
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with work on the Flora of British India. He became director of public instruction in Bengal in 1884 and was transferred to Shillong (then in Assam) the next year. He utilized this period to explore the northeast of India. He retired from the
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Clarke's 1898 phytogeographical classification based on the Cyperaceae (1) West Himalaya (2) India Deserta (3) Malabaria (4) Ceylon (5) Coromandelia (6) Gangetic Plain (7) East Himalaya (8) Assam (9) Ava (10) Pegu (11) Malay
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and Elizabeth née Parker. He was introduced into botanical tastes by his paternal grandmother Elizabeth Baron who was the brother of a founder of the Agricultural Society of Saffron Walden. He was educated at
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for the next nineteen years, right until his death. He also took an interest in music, mathematics, ethnography, geology and economics.
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in 1887 and lived near Kew along with his brother Poulter Clarke so that he could continue to work as a volunteer at the
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On the Indian species of Cyperus: with remarks on some others that specially illustrate the sub-divisions of the genus
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and based on their distributions developed an influential phytogeographical classification of British India.
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A list of the flowering plants, ferns, and mosses collected in the immediate neighbourhood of Andover
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and in the Swiss alps. He was bracketed third wrangler in 1856. He began the study of law at
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in 1882. He died from internal inflammation caused by excessive bicycling and is buried in
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Carte-de-Visite at the Royal Society, probably at the time of becoming a Fellow in 1882.
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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Cyperaceae of the Philippines: a list of the species in the Kew Herbarium
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Boulger, George Simonds (1912). "Clarke, Charles Baron (1832–1906)".
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from 1869 to 1871. During this period he became a specialist on the
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Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1880. Flora of British India 3(7): 46.
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There are number of plants named from his specimens with the
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
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International Mycological Association 475:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 472: 380:"On the Plants of Kohima and Muneypore" 766: 755:Works by or about Charles Baron Clarke 705: 674: 635: 377: 315:The stone monuments of the Khasi hills 799:Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 408: 804:Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 504:Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names 483:10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.32425 468: 466: 295:Speculations From Political Economy 13: 693:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1898.tb00555.x 396:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1889.tb00793.x 136:from 1869 to 1871 in the place of 116:Clarke lectured in mathematics at 14: 820: 734: 463: 342: 289:The Subsubareas of British India 45: 699: 668: 629: 599: 551:International Plant Names Index 254: 588: 563: 543: 489: 440: 411:"Charles Baron Clarke, F.R.S." 402: 378:Clarke, Charles Baron (1889). 371: 336: 1: 355:"Clarke, Charles Baron"  329: 809:Burials at Richmond Cemetery 789:Fellows of the Royal Society 264:The Cyperaceae of Costa Rica 164:Clarke was president of the 132:, and superintendent of the 16:British botanist (1832–1906) 7: 477:. Oxford University Press. 274:Illustrations of Cyperaceae 138:Thomas Anderson (1832–1870) 10: 825: 36:Calcutta Botanical Gardens 496:Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). 308:A class-book of geography 151:Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 134:Calcutta Botanical Garden 102: 741:Works by Charles Clarke 706:Clarke, C. B. (1892). 675:Clarke, C. B. (1898). 636:Clarke, C. B. (1874). 284:Philippine Acanthaceae 243:, which is a genus of 161: 113: 93:Pillar (Lake District) 24: 409:Vines, S. H. (1906). 159: 110: 61:King's College School 22: 447:Clark, C.B. 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botanist
Calcutta Botanical Gardens
Cyperaceae
Andover
JP
King's College School
London
Trinity
Queens'
Cambridge
Henry Fawcett
Leslie Stephen
John Rigby
Pillar (Lake District)
Lincoln's Inn

Presidency College
Calcutta
Eastern Bengal
India
Calcutta Botanical Garden
Thomas Anderson (1832–1870)
Joseph Hooker
Indian Civil Service
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Linnean Society
Royal Society
Richmond Cemetery

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