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**'''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for accounts of animals who were hunted,  and their habitats.
**'''[[Hunting accounts online]]''' for accounts of animals who were hunted,  and their habitats.
**[[Botanists and naturalists]]
**[[Botanists and naturalists]]
*[https://archive.org/details/reptilesofbritis00gn ''The Reptiles of British India''] by Albert C. L. G Gunther  1864. With [https://archive.org/stream/reptilesofbritis00gn#page/n480/mode/1up Plates] at the back of the book. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indiansnakeselem00nich ''Indian Snakes: An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India and the Adjoining Countries‬''] by Edward Nicholson, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 2nd edition 1874 with Plates Archive.org. (First edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aAsAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1870] Google Books)
*[https://archive.org/details/indiansnakeselem00nich ''Indian Snakes: An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India and the Adjoining Countries‬''] by Edward Nicholson, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 2nd edition 1874 with Plates Archive.org. (First edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aAsAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1870] Google Books)
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031176435 ''The Royal Tiger of Bengal, his Life and Death''] by J Fayrer MD Bengal Medical Service 1875 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/TheThanatophidiaOfIndiaBeingADescriptionOfTheVenomousSnakesOfThe  ''The Thanatophidia of India: Being a Description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an Account of the Influence of Their Poison on Life and a Series of Experiments''] by J Fayrer, Surgeon-Major HM Bengal Army  1872 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031176435 ''The Royal Tiger of Bengal, his Life and Death''] by J Fayrer MD Bengal Medical Service 1875 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/tribesonfrontier00aitkiala ''The tribes on my frontier; an Indian naturalist's foreign policy''] by E H  Aitken (E H A ) 6th edition 1904 (Written c 1880) Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/tribesonfrontier00aitkiala ''The tribes on my frontier; an Indian naturalist's foreign policy''] by E H  Aitken (E H A ) 6th edition 1904 (Written c 1880) Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof00ster ''Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon''] by Robert A Sterndale, with 170 Illustrations by the author. 1884. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof00ster ''Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon''] by Robert A Sterndale, with 170 Illustrations by the author. 1884. Archive.org

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Scientific and Miscellaneous books online

Miscellaneous titles

Animals

The Royal Tiger of Bengal, his Life and Death by J Fayrer MD Bengal Medical Service 1875 Archive.org
Sterndale’s Mammalia of India: A New and Abridged edition by Frank Finn 1929 Archive.org
The Jungle In Sunlight And Shadow by FW Champion 1934. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.

Travel

Journals of the Asiatic Societies and related publications

The Asiatic Society of Bengal issued many differently named publications including Asiatick Researches from 1788 to Volume XX 1839, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, published from 1832 to Volume 73, 1904, Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal published separately from 1865 to 1904, Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal new series, v. 1-30, 1905-1934. Superseded by the society's Journal 3rd ser. (called 1935-39, Journal and proceedings 3rd ser.), Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Issued by: 1905-1935, Asiatic Society of Bengal; 1938-40, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Irregular publications to 1949

Asiatic Researches

Gleanings in Science

Published in Calcutta. In 1832 the publication was merged with/became Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Google Books

Volume 1 1829 Contents Volume 2 1830 Contents Volume 3 1831 Contents

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society

The Society continued until 1873 when it amalgamated with the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Mainly Google Books Volume 19 Archive.org

Volume 1, 1836-1838 (reprint 1844)

Contents

Volume 2, 1838- May 1839 Volume 3, June 1839-Feb 1840

Contents

Volume 4, May-Aug 1840

Contents

Volume 5, Sept-Nov 1840

Contents

Volume 6, Sept 1841-May 1844

Contents

Volume 7, May 1844- Dec 1846

Contents

Volume 8, Jan 1847-May 1849

Contents

Volume 9, May 1849-Aug 1850

Contents

Volume 10, Sept 1850-June 1852

Contents

Volume 11, July 1852-Dec 1853

Contents

Volume 12, Dec 1854-March 1856

Contents

Volume 13, March 1856-March 1857

Contents

Volume 14, May 1857-May 1858

Contents

Volume 15, May 1858- May 1860

Contents

Volume 16, June 1860- Dec 1862

Contents

Volume 17, Jan 1863 to Dec 1864

Contents

Index of Volumes 1-17 1866 Volume 18, Jan 1865- Dec 1867

Contents

Volume 19, Jan 1868-Dec 1873

Contents

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay

Other

  • Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from Volume 1 1845. See Ceylon
  • The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. Published at Singapore Volumes 1-9 1847-1855; New Series Volumes 1-4 1856-59/63. See Singapore
  • Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1878-1922. See Singapore
  • Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from c late 1850s. See China
  • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland from 1834. Multiple volumes: Hathi Trust A,B. Archive.org

Calcutta Journal of Natural History, and Miscellany of the Arts and Sciences in India

Google Books

Volume 1 1841

Contents

Volume 2 1842

Contents

Volume 3 1843

Contents

Volume 4 1844

General Index

Volume 5 1845

General Index

Volume 6 1846

General Index

Volume 7 1847

General Index

Publications of the Indian Museum

The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India

  • Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India Google Books
Volume 1 repr. 1838-Contents Volume 2 repr. 1938-Contents Volume 3 repr? 1839-Contents Volume 4 1837-Contents Volume 5 1838-Contents
Volume 6 1939-Contents Volume 7 1840-Contents Volume 8 1841-Contents Index to the Transactions Volumes 1-8 1857
January 1841-Contents February 1841-Contents March 1841-Contents April 1841-Contents November 1841-Contents December 1841-Contents
January 1842-Contents February 1842-Contents March 1842-Contents April 1842-Contents May 1842-Contents June 1842-Contents
  • Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India Google Books and Archive.org
Volume 1 1842-Contents Volume 3 1844-Contents Part I-Contents Part II Volume 4 1845-Contents Part I-Contents Part II Volume 6 1848-Contents Part I-Contents Part II Volume IX, Part I with

Membership list at December 1854 *

* Located at the back of the book A residence among the Chinese 
inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856 
by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org. The author was a plant collector and this book includes information about plant species

Other books relating to Agriculture

All the remaining volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus: Link to pdf download ; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia: Link to pdf download ; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera): Link to pdf download  ; Vol-V (Linum to Oyster): Link to pdf download  ; Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye): Link to pdf download ; Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum) Link to pdf download , together with an Index volume: Link to pdf download ). Restricted viewing, probably accessible to those in North America, and some other countries: Hathi Trust Digital Library ten volumes
The commercial products of India : being an abridgment of The dictionary of the economic products of India by Sir George Watt 1908 Archive.org Index

Botany in British India

The Himalayan Journal

  • The Himalayan Journal, Journal of the Himalayan Club is available online from Volume No 1, 1929 and is searchable.

1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica

  • Links to all the editions of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica available on Archive.org may be accessed though a webpage from lexilogos.com. Index volume (Volume 29) Archive.org. All 28 volumes of text have the same format URL commencing with Volume 1 https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri01chisrich The Encyclopaedia contains entries about many locations in India. There is a community project to update articles in this edition of the Encyclopaedia and this is online at Online Encyclopaedia