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- The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India, being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850 at the Calcutta Medical College by Allan Webb 1850 Google Books
- Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India. Part I: Osteology or the Bones of the Human Body by A.F. Rudolf Hoernle 1907 Archive.org. It appears this may have been the only Part published.
- India in Greece: Or, Truth in Mythology : Containing the Sources of the Hellenic Race, the Colonization of Egypt and Palestine, the Wars of the Grand Lama, and the Bud'histic Propaganda in Greece by Edward Pococke Second Edition 1856 Google Books
Travel
- India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India ... from Latin, Persian, Russian and Italian Sources ... Translated Into English edited by Richard Henry Major 1857 Google Books
- A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley. 1866 Google Books
- India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers by JN Das Gupta 1916 Archive.org
- Oriental Repertory by Alexander Dalrymple Volume 1 1793 and Volume 2 1808. The two volumes contain many tracts on the history, industries, etc. of India, China, and Indo-China, including travel, journeys etc first published at irregular intervals, in eight "numbers," from April 1791 to April 1797
- Oriental Repertory, Volume 1 by Alexander Dalrymple 1793 Archive.org.
- Oriental Repertory, Volume 2 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.
- Table of Contents, computer pages 28-31;General index of Persons commencing part O-Z computer pages 632-633;General Index of Things A-Z computer pages 634-637
- For more details of the author, see List of Indian Civil Servants
- Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat Contents Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.org
- Wall-Street to Cashmere: A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” Archive.org version Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer John Busteed Ireland 1823- 1913
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
Calcutta Journal of Natural History, and Miscellany of the Arts and Sciences in India
Google Books
| Volume 1 1841 | Volume 2 1842 | Volume 3 1843 | Volume 4 1844 | Volume 5 1845 | Volume 6 1846 | Volume 7 1847 |
Gleanings in Science
Published in Calcutta. Google Books
| Volume 1 1829 Contents | Volume 2 1830 Contents | Volume 3 1831 Contents |
The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
- Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India Google Books
- 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 |
* 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
- India in 1887 as seen by Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy 1888 Archive.org
Botany in British India
- The British Library digitised manuscripts include India Office Records relating to "Botany in British India". A search using the key word India will locate the documents.
- Flora Indica; Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants by William Roxburgh 1832 edition Google Books. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
- Roxburgh's Flora Indica. This web site brings together William Roxburgh's three-volume text-only Flora Indica published posthumously in 1832, with the illustrations he commissioned of most of the plants he described. Kew Gardens
- The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce. Medicine and the Arts by Colonel Heber Drury 2nd edition with additions and corrections 1873 Archive.org
- A Bibliography of the Botany of British India and Ceylon by E Blatter, S J 1911 Archive.org . Includes references to various plantation crops such as page xcv
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
