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== | ==Publications of the Indian Museum== | ||
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Memoirs+of+the+Indian+Museum%22&sort=-publicdate ''Memoirs of the Indian Museum''] First published 1907, volumes to Vol VII, 1918-1922 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Memoirs+of+the+Indian+Museum%22&sort=-publicdate ''Memoirs of the Indian Museum''] First published 1907, volumes to Vol VII, 1918-1922 Archive.org. The later editions are edited by the Director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) which was established 1 July 1916 | ||
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Records+of+the+Indian+Museum%29&sort=-publicdate ''Records of the Indian Museum (A Journal of Indian Zoology)]''. Many editions from Volume I 1907. Archive.org. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10294#/summary biodiversitylibrary] editions. (may be same digital files) | |||
==The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India== | ==The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India== | ||
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Scientific and Miscellaneous books online
Miscellaneous titles
- 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
- Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874 by WG Willson 1875 Archive.org
- Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist, US National Museum1885 Archive.org
- "Khaki" on cotton and other textile material by Dr Friedrich Carl Theis, translated into English by E C Kayser 1903 Archive.org
- The Army of the Indian Moghuls: its organization and administration by William Irvine, late Bengal Civil Service. 1903 Archive.org
- Investigations into Rats for plague research
- "Preliminary Notes on the Rats of Calcutta" by WC Hossack, MD, District Medical Officer , Calcutta page 183 NS Vol II, No 5 1906 Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, published 1907
- Aids to the identification of rats connected with plague in India : with suggestions as to the collection of specimens by WC Hossack, MD, Plague Department , Calcutta. Published by the Indian Museum 2nd Edition 1907. Archive.org
- "An Account of the Rats of Calcutta" (text) and Plates by WC Hossack MD Memoirs of the Indian Museum, Volume I, July 1907 Archive.org
- "The Races of Indian Rats. An Enquiry Supplementary to the Investigation of Plague" by R E Lloyd, Capt. I M S page 1, Records of the Indian Museum, Volume III, 1909 Archive.org
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
- Early English Adventurers in the East by Arnold Wright 1917 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
- Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China by Hugh Clifford 1904 with Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India and Index Archive.org
- 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
- In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with Illustrations 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in From the Hebrides to the Himalayas.
- From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Translated from the Russian of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Reprinted 1908 (originally published 1892) Archive.org
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
- Asiatick Researches, Or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring Into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. Multiple volumes 1788-1839 Hathi Trust Digital Library
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
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from Volume 1 1832. Hathi Trust Multiple volumes: A, B and C. Editions are also available on Google Books including Index to Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volumes 1-23 1856. The latter publication also contains Index to Vols XIX and XX of Asiatic Researches
- Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1868 (published from 1865).Hathi Trust
- Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 biodiversitylibrary.org. Publications to 1949 are available on the subscription website South Asia Archive
- A number of Journals, Proceedings and Memoirs are available on Archive.org including Centenary Review of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1784-1883 published 1885
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
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Multiple volumes from 1841. Hathi Trust Digital Library
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 | Volume 2 1842 | Volume 3 1843 | Volume 4 1844 | Volume 5 1845 | Volume 6 1846 | Volume 7 1847 |
Publications of the Indian Museum
- Memoirs of the Indian Museum First published 1907, volumes to Vol VII, 1918-1922 Archive.org. The later editions are edited by the Director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) which was established 1 July 1916
- Records of the Indian Museum (A Journal of Indian Zoology). Many editions from Volume I 1907. Archive.org. biodiversitylibrary editions. (may be same digital files)
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
- Also see
- Ceylon - Historical books online
- Commerce and trade, for Fibiwiki pages about plantations: sections "Historical books online"
- India in 1887 as seen by Robert Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy 1888 Archive.org
- A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India by George Watt There were ten volumes in total, including an Index volume Volume I, Abaca to Buxus 1885; Volume VI, Part II Sabadilla to Silica 1893; Volume VI, Part III Silk to Tea 1893 Archive.org
- All the remaining volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera); Vol-V (Linum to Oyster); Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye); Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum), together with an Index volume). 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
- Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India The Date Sugar Industry in Bengal : an investigation into its chemistry and agriculture 1913 Archive.org [Wild Date Palm or Palm Sugar]
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
- A Manual of Gardening for Western and Southern India by Robert Riddell 2nd Edition 1856 Google Books
- Indian gardening; a manual of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, soils and manures, and gardening operations of every kind in Bengal, the upper provinces, & the hill stations of India by Lieutenant Fred. Pogson 1872. Volume I Flower and Fruit Garden, Volume II the Kitchen Garden (in one volume) Hathi Trust Digital Library
- 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
- A catalogue of Indian medicinal plants and drugs : with their names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit languages by John Fleming, Surgeon of the Bengal Establishment 1810 Archive.org
- Catalogue of the vegetable production of the Presidency of Bombay: including a list of the drugs sold in bazars of western India by George C. M. Birdwood 1865 Archive.org
- The indigenous drugs of India, or, Short descriptive notices of the principal medicines, both vegetable and mineral, in common use among the natives of India by Kanny Loll Dey 1867 Archive.org
- Pharmacopoeia of India. Prepared under the Authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council by Edward John Waring, assisted by a Committee appointed for the purpose 1868, Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia of India with explanatory and descriptive remarks in fourteen languages by Moodeen Sheriff 1869 Google Books
- Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India, 2nd edition 1874 by Edward John Waring MD , 3rd edition 1875, 4th edition 1883, (1860 edition in English and Tamil) Archive.org
- Catalogue of the Bombay drugs including a list of the medicinal plants of Bombay used in the fresh state by Sakharam Arjun, Assistant Surgeon 1879 Archive.org
- Pharmacographia indica: a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in British India by William Dymock, C J H Warden, and David Hooper 1890-1893 Archive.org Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Index and Appendix
- Notes on the therapeutics of indigenous vegetable drugs by Lakshman B Dhargalker 1899 Archive.org
- Indian Plants and Drugs with their Medical Properties and Uses by K.M Nadkarni 1910 Is available to read online at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online. Catalogue no. 9113
- Indian Medicinal Plants by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar and Baman Das Basu 1918 Archive.org. Two volumes of text and five volumes of plates. Volume 1 Text, Volume 2 Text, Volume 1 Plates 1-200, Volume 2 Plates 201-400, Volume 3 Plates 401-600, Volume 4 Plates 601-800, Volume 5 Plates 801-1033
- Indian Council Of Medical Research Special Report Series No. 30 A Review of Work on Indian Medicinal Plants by R N Chopra and I C Chopra 1955 Archive.org. Note: Catalogued as Indian Council Of Medical Research
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