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==Botany in British India==
==Botany in British India==
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx 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.
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx 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. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1IYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KYcCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fm0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume III]
**[http://apps.kew.org/floraindica/home.do  Roxburgh's ''Flora Indica'']. This web site brings together [[Botanists and naturalists|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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/usefulplantsind01drurgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''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
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/usefulplantsind01drurgoog#page/n5/mode/2up ''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
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n3/mode/2up ''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  [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n22/mode/1up/search/Cinnamon page xcv]
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n3/mode/2up ''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  [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924014480887#page/n22/mode/1up/search/Cinnamon page xcv]

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Miscellaneous titles

Oriental Repertory

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

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

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


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


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
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

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