Henry Noltie worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as a taxonomist, curator, and historian of its Indian collections. He specialized in the botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish East India Company surgeons, on which he curated a series of exhibitions in the Garden’s Inverleith House gallery. He has written lavishly illustrated monographs on the collections commissioned by Alexander Gibson in the Bombay Presidency and by Robert Wight and Hugh Cleghorn in the Madras Presidency. He is a research associate of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum, London.