Scientific books online

Scientific and Miscellaneous books online

Miscellaneous titles

• Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies by Abbe J A Dubois, translated by Henry K Beauchamp, 2nd edition 1899. Archive.org. Originally written c 1806, and fully revised by the author 1815. The author was in South India c 1792 to 1823 as a missionary.
• Sati : a historical, social and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning by V N Datta 1988 Archive.org Books to Borrow.
• Corporate Life In Ancient India by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar 1922 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• The Economic History of Ancient India by Santosh Kumar Das. First published 1925 Archive.org. Revised edition 1944: Part 1 Archive.org. Part 2 does not appear to be available online. The British Library has a catalogue entry for a 1980 reprint UIN: BLL01009764711
• The Child In Ancient India by Kamalabai Deshpande 1936. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Phd thesis, German University, Prague 1931. Includes a chapter on child marriage.
• Everyday Life in Early India by Michael Edwardes 1969. Archive.org Lending Library. Covers the period from approximately the 3rd Century BC to 8th Century AD.
• On Hygiene in Ancient India by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon c 1900 Wellcome Library Digital Collection, catalogue reference RAMC/56. This article first appeared in The Madras Journal of Literature and Science 1879, pages 1-35, see the Google Books edition. Gordon, Charles Alexander whowaswho-indology.info
• ‪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
• An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine : including an introductory lecture to the course of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, delivered at King's College by J F Royle MD, late of the Medical Staff of the Bengal Army. 1837 Archive.org
• ‪Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine by T A Wise, M D Bengal Medical Service. New Issue 1860 (First published 1845) 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.
• The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus : with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern European surgeons by Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya. Originally from Digital Library of India. Volume 1 Archive.org version 1913; Volume 2 Archive.org version 1914.
• History of Indian Medicine. Containing notices, biographical and bibliographical, of the Āyurvedic physicians and their works on medicine by Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya. Originally from Digital Library of India. Volume I Archive.org version 1923; Volume II Archive.org version 1926; Volume III Archive.org version 1929.
• The Hand Book Of Indian Medicine: The Gems of Siddha System by T.G. Ramamurthi Iyer. 1981 reprint, first published 1933. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Diagnostic Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery by G D Singhal, 1972. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. This is the first volume in a series of twelve, covering different aspects of Ancient Indian Surgery, Consulting Editor Prof K N Udupa, Chief Editor G D Singhal. Many of these are available at the British Library UIN: BLL01005721601, which lists titles.

Surgical Ethics in Āyerveda by G D Singhal 1963 Archive.org.

• The Practice of Medicine Among the Burmese by Keith Norman MacDonald, late Civil Surgeon of Prome 1879 Archive.org
• ‪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
• Alexander's Campaign On The Indian North-West Frontier by Sir Aurel Stein 1927. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Originally published with the additional title wording "Notes from Explorations between Upper Swāt and the Indus" in The Geographical Journal Vol. 70, No. 5 (Nov., 1927), pp. 417-440.

On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India by Sir Aurel Stein 1929 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Archive.org version but photographs are poor quality.

• Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874 by WG Willson 1875 Archive.org
• Report on the Meteorology of India from First Year 1875 to Sixteenth Year 1890. Most, but not all years. Archive.org. HathiTrust Digital Library editions, where pages can be rotated.
• A practical guide to the climates and weather of India, Ceylon and Burmah and the storms of Indian seas, based chiefly on the publications of the Indian Meteorological Department by Henry F Blanford, late Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India. 1889 Archive.org
• Indian coloured drawings: a collection of 177 original paintings on "talc," etc., with 17 engravings, illustrating costume, vehicles and trades in Indiafrom 1780 - 1858 (Approximate). New York Public Library Digital Collection.
• Under the Indian Sun : British Landscape Artists edited by Pauline Rohatgi and Pheroza Godrej 1995. Published by Marg Publications, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• "The stuffs in the Indies; their manner of designing flowers, preparing colours, and applying them; a secret to make indigo, how they prepare it; how they bleach the web to prepare it for the reception of different colours; description of Indian pencils" pages 241-257 A collection of curious observations, on the manners, customs...of the several nations of Asia, Africa, and America, Volume I, (catalogued) by Claude-François Lambert, 1705-1765, translated from the French by John Dunn 1750. Archive. org. Subsequently published as Travels through Asia, Africa, and America containing a Curious account… by Edward Howard 1755 Archive.org. Original French account page 65, Recueil d'observations curieuses… Volume II (of 4) 1749. French volumes 1-4 Archive.org. Attributed to Claude-François Lambert on bnf.fr.
• Indian designs such as fabric designs: Plates: Indian (following page 76) followed by "Chapter XII Indian Ornament" page 77 The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones 1868 Archive.org. Includes coloured Plates.
• The Industrial Arts of India by George C M Birdwood, Art Referee for the India Section of the South Kensington Museum. 1880, one volume edition. Two volume edition: Vol 1 1880, Vol 2 1880

New edition 1884, Part I New edition 1884, Part II All Archive.org

• Journal of Indian Art. 17 volumes published 1886 -1916, "documenting the rich cultural traditions of colonial-era India" University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia. Also published under the title Journal of Indian Art and Industry. A quarterly publication. If link is not permanent, use the Search.

Volumes XIII, XIV, catalogued Vol. 11-14 Archive.org. Contains Volume XIII 1910 "Indian Timbers" (April, July, October) together with Volume XIV 1911 "Tile Mosaics of the Lahore Fort", text in four parts. Text quality below average, image quality extremely bad

• Indian Art and Industrie c 1900. No text, images only, high quality digitisation. It is unknown whether these images are associated with the publication Journal of Indian Art and Industry. Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) Dresden.
• Industrial Art and Industry Monograph Series
  • Monograph Series, Bengal. Subsequently republished in 1976 as Art in industry through the ages : Monograph series on Bengal Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. This book consists of 11 monographs, listed in this catalogue record nla.gov.au. See Bengal (Presidency) for individual monographs available online.
  • Monograph Series, Madras. Republished in 1982 as Art in industry through the ages. Monograph series on Madras Presidency / Southern India, whose contents of 8 monographs may be seen in this catalogue record nla.gov.au. See Madras (Presidency) for individual monographs available online.
  • A Monograph On Dyes And Dyeing In The Bombay Presidency by C G H Fawcett. [Sir Charles Gordon Hill Fawcett] 1896. Uniform Title: Miscellaneous Official Publications. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Subsequently republished in 1976 as part of Art in industry through the ages : monograph series on Bombay Presidency, with this catalogue record for contents nla.gov.au. See Bombay (Presidency) for individual monographs available online.
  • For further Monographs, also see Assam, Burma, North-Western Provinces‎, Punjab, United Provinces.
• "Khaki" on cotton and other textile material by Dr Friedrich Carl Theis, translated into English by E C Kayser 1903 Archive.org
• On the weapons, army organisation, and political maxims of the ancient Hindus, with special reference to gunpowder and firearms by Gustav Oppert 1880. 1880 edition, 1967 reprint Archive.org , Public Library of India collection.
• An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms: Being a Classified and Descriptive Catalogue of the Arms Exhibited at the India Museum; with an Introductory Sketch of the Military History of India by the Hon. Wilbraham Egerton 1880 Archive.org. With plates (filmed plates may be poor quality, or missing). HathiTrust Digital Library version with better images, some in colour. Archive.org version No 2, same as HathiTrust file.
• The Army of the Indian Moghuls: its organization and administration by William Irvine, late Bengal Civil Service. 1903 Archive.org.
• Administrative System Of The Marathas by Surendranath Sen 2nd edition, revised and enlarged 1925 Archive.org.

The Military System Of The Marathas by Surendra Nath Sen 1928. Full title: Military System of the Marathas. With a brief account of their maritime activities. Some editions have the short title only. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. 2nd edition 1958 Archive.org version mirror from DLI.

• The Military System In Ancient India by Bimal Kanti Majumdar, 1955. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India; 2nd edition 1960: Archive.org version, mirror from DLI.
• Military System Of The Sikhs by B N Majumdar 1965. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. .
• Soldierly Traditions of the Sikhs up to 1849 by Dr. Hari Ram Gupta. The second Macauliffe Memorial Lecture, possibly c 1979. Archive.org
• A Particular Account of the European Adventurers of Hindustan 1784 to 1803 by Herbert Compton (1893) (Benoit De Boigne (French), George Thomas, General Perron (French)) Archive.org

Hindustan under Free Lances, 1770-1820; sketches of military adventure in Hindustan during the period immediately preceding British occupation by H G Keene 1907 Archive.org.

"Indian Adventurers" pages 246-296 Soldiers of Fortune in Camp and Court by Alexander Innes Shand 1907 Archive.org

European Freebooters In Moghul India by Lester Hutchinson 1964, Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title has the additional wording [With special reference to Walter R. Sombre, George Thomas and Benoît de Boigne]

• The Birth of Indian Psychology and its Development in Buddhism by Mrs. Rhys Davids 1936. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Medieval Routes To India: Baghdad To Delhi by HC Verma 1960. Full title: Medieval Routes to India: Baghdad to Delhi. A study of trade and military routes. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Historical Dictionary of Medieval India by Iqtidar Alam Khan 2008. Archive.org
• Accounts of the Gypsies of India collected and edited by David MacRitchie 1886 Archive.org. The gypsies of Europe originated from the north west of India.

"The Gypsy" Part II, page 131 The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam by the late Captain Sir Richard F Burton, edited with a Preface and Brief Notes by W H Wilkins 1898. Archive.org. The section on the Gypsies originally written c 1875.

• Parsis in India and the Diaspora edited by John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams 2008 Archive.org
• A Guide to the Old Observatories at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Benares by G.R. Kaye. 1920. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Journal Of The Indian Society Of Oriental Art Broken range, Vol.2 No.1, 1934 to Volume 18, 1951. Archive.org, many from the Digital Library of India Collection.
• Bibliotheca Indosinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à la péninsule indochinoise [Biblioteca Indosinica: Bibliographic dictionary of books on the Indochinese Peninsula] by Henri Cordier 1912 Archive.org Includes English publications.

Volume I Includes Birmanie [Burma], Assam, Siam and Laos. Volume II Péninsule Malaise [Malayan Peninsula] and Volume III Indochine Francaise same digital file; Volume IV Indochine Francaise continued, Cambodge, Laos, Tchampa [Annam or Cochin-China, which became part of Vietnam]. Contents by volume, Index of authors, Alphabetical Index for all volumes.

Animals

• Also see
  • Hunting accounts online for accounts of animals who were hunted, and their habitats.
  • Botanists and naturalists
  • Veterinary Surgeon, particularly for books about elephants and camels.
• Two publications in one digital file: An Account of Indian Serpents collected on the Coast of Coromandel by Patrick Russell MD, FRS 1796. A Continuation of an Account of Indian Serpents by Patrick Russell 1801. Both publications with Plates. 1796 Archive.org version with Plates together with 1801 publication with Plates. The 1801 volume is Part II, and contains Appendices written in 1804 and 1809. Missing at least one Plate from each publication. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.

An Account of Indian Serpents collected on the Coast of Coromandel by Patrick Russell MD, FRS 1796. With Plates, which are at the back of the book. Linda Hall Library Kansas City, USA, LHL Digital Collections. Note: after the Zoom in icon, click on the next icon Full Browser, for ease of reading. The images are stated to be in Tiff format, so if you cannot see the images you will need to download a Tiff plugin. Another 1796 Archive.org version with Plates.

A Continuation of an Account of Indian Serpents by Patrick Russell 1801 Archive.org. With Plates.

• An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India, and the Islands in the Indian Seas by Edward Donovan 1800. With Coloured Plates. Archive.org.

Natural history of the insects of India by E Donovan . A new edition with additional matter by J O Westwood. 1838 edition bodleian.ox.ac.uk Click on the thumbnail icon (top L H corner) to locate the coloured plates. Archive.org 1842. With coloured plates at the back of the book; Archive.org 1842. With coloured plates throughout the book.

• Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands by Thomas Horfield MD 1824 Archive.org. With coloured plates.

Images from the book New York Public Library Digital Collection.

• Illustrations of Indian Zoology: chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ... by John Edward Gray. With coloured plates. Originally issued in twenty undated parts during the years 1830-1835, each part containing ten coloured plates.

Volume I, 1830-1832, Contents; Volume II 1833-1834, Contents; Both Archive.org..Vol. I and Vol.II, same digital file. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Note some Plates appear to be missing.

Individual Images, Volumes I and II, New York Public Library Digital Collection. Note images are clearly labelled. Also possible to view in book format.

• The Reptiles of British India by Albert C. L. G Gunther 1864. With Plates at the back of the book. Archive.org
• 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 1870 Google Books)
• 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

The Royal Tiger of Bengal, his Life and Death by J Fayrer MD Bengal Medical Service 1875 Archive.org

Destruction of Life in India by Wild Animals by J Fayrer Archive.org. From Nature, Jan. 18, 1883.

The Deadly Wild Beasts of India by J Fayrer 1889 Archive.org.

• Comments about elephants, page 191 Anecdotes and Reminiscences of Service in Bengal [by A. L. M. Phillips (Alfred Lisle March Phillips) 1878] Google Books. He arrived in India in 1846 to join the Bengal Civil Service and retired 1873.
• The Poisonous Snakes of India : for the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire by Joseph Ewart, Surgeon Major of the Bengal Army 1878 Archive.org. With coloured Plates.
• Indian Snake Poisons, their Nature and Effects by A J Wall, MD, of the Medical Staff, HM’s Indian Army. 1883 Archive.org
• The common snakes of India and Burma and how to recognize them by W H Cazaly, Major, IMS. 1914 Archive.org
• The Highlands of Central India : notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and sports by Captain J Forsyth, Bengal Staff Corps. First published 1871, when the author was formerly Assistant Conservator of Forests, Central India. 1871 edition, 1889 edition, 1919 edition Archive.org

"Selection and Treatment of Elephants" page 365, 1919 edition

• The Tribes on my Frontier: an Indian Naturalist's Foreign Policy by E H Aitken (E H A) 6th edition 1904 (First published 1883) Archive.org.

The Common Birds of Bombay by EHA [Edward Hamilton Aitken] c 1900. First published in the Times of India.

The Common Birds of India by EHA 3rd edition, 1947. An edited version by Salim Ali of The Common Birds of Bombay

Concerning Animals and Other Matters by E H Aitken (EHA) 1914. Archive.org.

• Biography of EHA page xi

• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A Sterndale, with 170 Illustrations by the author. 1884. Archive.org

Sterndale’s Mammalia of India: A New and Abridged edition by Frank Finn 1929 Archive.org

Seonee; or, Camp life on the Satpura Range; a Tale of Indian Adventure by Robert Armitage Sterndale, 2nd Edition 1877 (First published 1877?) Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. Central Provinces of India. Set in fictional form (for juveniles), but based on actual experiences.

• 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 Museum 1885 Archive.org
• The Fauna of British India Multiple volumes on different fauna from c 1889. Archive.org. In addition there are volumes which have not been catalogued under this title, such as Arachnida by R I Pocock 1900 Archive.org
• Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People by John Lockwood Kipling 1904, first published 1891. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. John Lockwood Kipling Wikipedia. Father of the author Rudyard Kipling.

Sketches only, no text different digital file. Archive.org.

• The Great and Small Game of India, Burma, & Tibet by R Lydekker 1900 Archive.org

The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet; being a new and revised edition of 'The Great and Small Game of India, Burma, and Tibet' by R Lydekker 1907 Archive.org

• "Trapping Wild Elephants in Travancore" by Mrs O H Benley, of Trevandrum, Travancore, page 278 The World Wide Magazine Vol XX, no 117 January 1908. Archive.org.
• Forest Life and Sport in India by S Eardley-Wilmot, Late Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India 1910. Archive.org. He joined the Forest Service in 1873
• Forty Years Among The Wild Animals Of India From Mysore To The Himalayas by F C Hicks , late Dy [Deputy] Conservator, Imperial Forest Service 1910 Archive.org.

Volume I only (although catalogued Vol. 2] 1911 edition, published in four volumes. Archive.org

• Memoirs Of A Camp- Follower by Philip Gosse. 1934. Some later editions were titled Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War or A Naturalist Goes to War. The author was a doctor RAMC, who has served on the Western Front 1915-1917, including his appointment as Rat Officer to the Second Army, and was then posted to India. Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection.
• "A Little Elephant" by H Warington Smyth page 234 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 211 January-June 1922 Archive.org. The Siamese training of an elephant in the wild.
• Wild Animals In Central India by A A Dunbar Brander 1923. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was a Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces.
• With A Camera In Tiger Land by F W Champion 1928 (first published 1927) Archive.org. The author was in the Imperial Forest Service of India, a keen naturalist and photographer.

The Jungle In Sunlight And Shadow by FW Champion 1934.Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.

• The Preservation of Shikar Trophies by Van Ingen and Van Ingen [of Mysore] 1929. University of Florida Digital Collections. Archive.org mirror version.
• The Elephant Lore of the Hindus Translated from the original Sanskrit by Franklin Edgerton 1931 Archive.org.
• Behind the Lens in Tigerland by Arthur Musselwhite. Editions appear to have been published in 1933 and 1942. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Forest Life In India by James W Best 1934 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was a forest officer in central India for 19 years
• One Man And A Thousand Tigers by Colonel Kesri Singh 1959 Archive.org. The author was Conservator of Forests for the Maharajah of Jaipur.
• The Deer And The Tiger: A Study Of Wildlife In India by George B Schaller 1967 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, together with those of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon by Salim Ali and S Dillon Ripley in ten volumes. published c 1968-1972. Volume 1 Plates in black and white and poor quality. Archive.org. Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 7. With good quality coloured plates. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• 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

Game Birds

• The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon by Hume and Marshall 1879. With coloured plates. Archive.org.Volume I, Volume II. Volume III
• Game, Shore and Water Birds of India by Colonel A Le Messurier R E . With illustrations. 3rd edition 1888 (first edition c 1874) Archive.org
• A Manual of the Game Birds of India by Eugene W Oates Part I – Land Birds 1898; Part II - Water Birds 1899. Archive.org
• The Indian Ducks and their Allies by E C Stuart Baler. With Coloured Plates 1908 Archive.org.
• The Game Birds of India and Asia by Frank Finn, late Deputy Superintendent Indian Museum. 1911 Archive.org.
• The Ducks Of India: Their Habits, Breeding Grounds And Migrations; Together With Other Useful Information for the Sportsman and Observer by R G Wright and Douglas Dewar 1925 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Poor quality images, lacking the original coloured plates.

Travel

• See Travel accounts online

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

• 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

Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: New Series Volume I 1905 to Volume XXX 1934, together with two volumes of Letters, published to 1937: A and B Archive.org

• A number of Journals, Proceedings and Memoirs are available on Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, located under the category Journals, as pdf downloads. If this website is unavailable, see the comments in Online books.

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

Journals for 1841-1954 issued by the society under an earlier name: Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

• Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Multiple volumes from 1841. Hathi Trust Digital Library

Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1841 to 2012. Archive.org

Other

• Multiple editions of Journal of the Burma Research Society from Volume I 1911 to Volume XXII 1932. Archive.org.
• 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
• Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Volumes I-III 1827-1834. Archive.org, HathiTrust Digital Library

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland from 1834. Multiple volumes: HathiTrust A, B. Archive.org

• Journal of the East India Association, London, multiple volumes from Volume I 1867 to 1896. Archive.org
• Proceedings of the Central Asian Society 1904, 1906 Archive.org

PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Dataset, category Journals, under the heading Royal Central Asian Society Journal 1904-1962 contains the links for pdf downloads for Proceedings of the Central Asian Society 1904-1911 and Journal of the Central Asian Society from Volume 1, 1914 to Volume 49, 1962. Alternatively use the Search to locate volumes.

A broken range of volumes of the Journal from 1914 to 1937, Volume 24 are also available Archive.org, mirror versions from Digital Library of India.

• The Indian Antiquary Multiple volumes from Volume I 1872 to Volume LXII, 1933. Later reprints include Volume II 1873. Volume XXI has title The Indian Antiquary; A journal of oriental research in archaeology, epigraphy, ethnology, geography, history, folklore, languages, literature, numismatics, philosophy, religion, etc. Archive.org, many from the Digital Library of India Collection.
• Multiple editions of Journal of the Siam Society from volume II 1905 to vol XXXI, 1939 (broken range), also vol XLVI, Parts 1-2 June-Nov 1958. Archive.org.

Index Volume I to XXV Journal of the Siam Society 1935 Archive.org

Also available online, where articles may be downloaded, from The Siam Society website. A complete series, currently to 2016. (Journals are placed online three years after being published).

• The following Geographical Journals are available on the website JSTOR, subdivided into individual articles. You can register and read articles for free (limits apply), see Miscellaneous tips.

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1831-1880 (Vol. 1 - Vol. 50); Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London 1857-1877 (Vol. 2, No. 1 - Vol. 22, No. 6); Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1879-1892 (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 14, No. 12); The Geographical Journal from Volume 1, 1893. Useful for locating individual articles if you have previously found a reference.

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

Google Books and Archive.org

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	General Index Volumes 1-7	Volume 8 1847-48 Supplementary Index	Alternative files Archive.org Illustrations may be of better quality.

Madras Journal of Literature and Science

Editions from 1833. HathiTrust catalogue states "New series, volumes 1-6 also called volumes 17-22. Publication suspended, 1841-43, 1846, 1852-56, 1860, 1862-63, 1866-77, 1881-85."

• HathiTrust editions 1833-1860, HathiTrust editions 1856-1864.
• Google Books editions include No.I Third Series July 1864, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881.
• Archive.org editions. Unfortunately many do not include date of publication as a catalogue item.

Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress

Previously available on the Digital Library of India, a broken range of editions from Eleventh Congress 1924 to after 1950, including Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Indian Science Congress 1938, the Silver Jubilee meeting. Mirror versions are available on Archive.org.

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

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

• Proceedings of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India Google Books

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

• Also see
  • Ceylon - Historical books online
  • Commerce and trade, for Fibiwiki pages about plantations: sections "Historical books online"
• The India officer's and trader's pocket-guide. In purchasing the drugs and spices of Asia and the East-Indies: With practical directions for the choice of diamonds, and an accurate account of the Chinese touch-needles [by W. Lewis] ... To which are prefixed, a complete account of the officers privilege ... and the duties of, and drawbacks on, East India goods. Compiled from Authority by H D S. 2nd edition 1789 Archive.org. Includes a description of some products such as spices.
• Indian Recreations; Consisting Chiefly Of Strictures On The Domestic And Rural Economy Of The Mahomedans & Hindoos by Rev William Tennant, lately one of His Majesty’s Chaplains in India. Second edition, enlarged and corrected 1804, first published 1803. (Volume I With a Glossary Of Indian Terms page vii Contents page xxi.) Volume II, Contents page v. Google Books
• "Indian Dyes and Dyeing Industry during 18th-19th Century" by H C Bhardwaj and Kamal K Jain Indian Journal of History of Science 17(1) 1982 pages 70-81. Prior to the introduction of synthetic dyes, most of the dyes were vegetable dyes.
• 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 also available on Archive.org as mirror files from Digital Library of India (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus: handle/2015/32869  ; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia: handle/2015/32870  ; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera): handle/2015/32871  ; Vol-V (Linum to Oyster): handle/2015/449489  ; Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye): handle/2015/83728  ; Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum) handle/2015/109127, see

Archive.org versions together with Index volume Archive.org version. The format of an Archive.org edition, the URL, is https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206825. If any of the above volumes cannot be located, replace the last number in the URL. 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

• Sugar
  • East-India Sugar: Papers Respecting the Culture and Manufacture of Sugar in British India: Also Notices of the Cultivation of Sugar in Other Parts of Asia. With Miscellaneous Information Respecting Sugar Printed by order of the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company, by E. Cox and Son, London. 1822 Google Books.
  • Supplement (No.I) to the Eight Report from the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting British Parliamentary Papers. Reports 1847-8. Seventeenth Volume –Part IV. Also called Volume 23, Part 4‬. Index. Google Books. Includes Sugar Planting in the East Indies, including Straits of Malacca and Coffee Planting in Ceylon
  • The Practical Sugar Planter: A Complete Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Sugar-Cane….in the East and West Indies and the Straits of Malacca… by Leonard Wray 1848 Archive.org
  • The Bengal Sugar Planter: being a treatise on the cultivation of the sugar-cane and date-tree in Bengal, and the manufacture of sugar and rum therefrom by S H Robinson 1849. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/National Library of India Collection.
  • "India" page 850 Sugar: a handbook for planters and refiners, being a comprehensive treatise on the culture of sugar-yielding plants, and the manufacture, refining, and analysis of cane…and a chapter on the distillation of rum by John A Newlands, and Benjamin E. R Newlands, 1909 Archive.org
  • 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]
• The Cultivation Of Lac In The Plains Of India by C S Misra 1912 Archive.org A publication of the Agriculture Research Institute, Pusa. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
• A History of Agriculture in India Volume III, 1757-1947 by M S Randhawa 1983 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
• Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden etc in India. To which is added, an Hindoostanee and English Vocabulary of horticultural and agricultural terms by G Y Frederic Speede 1840 Google Books Vocabulary, following page 284.
• A Manual of Gardening for Western India by R Riddell 2nd edition revised. 1848. Google Books

‪A Manual of Gardening for Western and Southern India by Robert Riddell 2nd Edition 1856 Google Books

• Illustrations of Himalayan plants : chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart, Esq.re of the Bengal Civil Service ; the descriptions and analyses by J.D. Hooker ; the plates executed by W.H. Fitch. 1855 Archive.org
• Firmingerʼs Manual of Gardening for India 8th edition 1958, first published 1863. With a Biographical Note by Walter Kelly Firminger, son, dated 1904. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.
• 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) HathiTrust 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
• Orchids and how to grow them in India and other tropical climates by Samuel Jennings 1875. Link to a pdf download Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
• 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 Cinnamon etc page xcv
• Familiar Flowering Trees in India by Ida Colthurst. 1924; 2nd edition revised, 1937. Both Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
• Colloquies on the Simples & Drugs of India by Garcia da Orta. First published in 1563 in Goa, in Portuguese, the third ever book printed in India. 1903 translation by Sir Clements Markham from an 1895 new edition of the original. Archive.org.
• Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales by Cristóbal Acosta with illustrations 1578. Google Books. 2nd file Google Books. Same files Archive.org 1, Archive.org 2. In Spanish. A translation is being undertaken at NSBS Bangalore, as detailed here.

Other books by Cristobal Acosta 1582 Google Books. 1585 Archive.org. Include illustrations.

• 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
• An English index to the plants of India by H Piddington 1832 Archive.org
• The Bengal Dispensatory: Chiefly Compiled from the Works of Roxburgh, Wallich... etc...including the results of numerous special experiments by W. B. O'Shaughnessy, M D. “Published by order of Government” Calcutta 1842. Google Books.
• A short account of the Materia Medica of Patna by R H Irvine, Civil Surgeon. 1848. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.
• 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. See Second Edition, revised and entirely rewritten 1896, below.
• 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
• The Materia Medica of the Hindus by Uday Chand Dutt, late Civil Medical Officer, Serampore ; with a glossary of Indian plants by George King, Superintendent, Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Revised edition 1922 (First published 1870, some sources give 1877) Archive.org
• Pharmacographia : A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India by Friedrich A. Flückiger and Daniel Hanbury 1874, 2nd edition 1879 Archive.org
• 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
• Indigenous Drugs of India by Kanny Lal Dey, assisted by William Mair. Second Edition, revised and entirely rewritten 1896 Archive.org. See first edition 1867 above.
• Indian and Colonial Addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia 1898 1900 Archive.org
• 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. Archive.org, mirror from 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
• Practical Bazaar Medicines, With Over 200 Useful Prescriptions by G. T. Birdwood [Gordon Travers]. 3rd edition 1936. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Reprint edition of 1936 edition. First published 1920, 2nd edition 1924. The author was Lt.-Col. IMS, Civil Surgeon, Lucknow.
• The Indian Materia Medica by K M Nadkarni 1926. Archive.org mirror version, originally from Digital Library of India. Hindu medicine based on fresh vegetable drugs. 1928 Review of the book JAMA.
• Indigenous Drugs of India : their medical and economic aspects by R N Chopra, Lieut.-Colonel, Indian Medical Service 1933 Archive.org.
• 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 Medical Book Of Malayan Medicine originally translated circa 1886 in Penang, edited by J D Gimlette and I H Burkill 1930. Published in The Gardens' Bulletin Straits Settlements October 1930 [Singapore: Botanic Gardens] Archive.org.
• "Malay Materia Medica" by H N Ridley pages 122- 138, Journal of the Straits Medical Association No 5 April 1893-December 1894. Followed by, in the same digital file, "Malay Plant Names". From elsewhere this was by H N Ridley from Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society July 1897, pages 31-284. Ridley elsewhere was stated to be Director of Gardens and Forests at Singapore. Archive.org.
• Medicinal Plants (Indigenous and Exotic) used in Ceylon Part 1 by D.M.A Jayaweera, with Taxonomic updating by Lilani K Senaratna 2006. Archive.org. First published 1981-1982, in five parts. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Links to pdf downloads. (Contents: pt. 1. Acan... pt. 2. Cact... pt. 3. Flac... pt. 4. Magn... pt. 5. Ruta...) National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka National e-Repository.
• Drug Plants Of Africa by Thomas S. Githens 1949 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.

The Himalayan Journal

• The Himalayan Journal, Journal of the Himalayan Club is available online from Volume No 1, 1929 as transcribed articles. Click on the individual articles. himalayanclub.org

(Journals from previous website, archived.)

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