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Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Vol, XXII 



1941 



A NOTE ON THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF WlGJirS 



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ICONES PLANTARUM INDIAE ORIENTALIS." 



E. D. Merrill 



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The basic information on the dates of issue of the various parts of 

 this important work, consisting as it does of 2101 plates and accompany- 

 ing descriptive text, is that supplied by Wight himself.* In the preface 



January 



March 



1853. Here he gives the year and the month of 

 issue of most of the parts, and his data, which are frequently over- 

 looked except by experienced bibliographers, are repeated below, for 

 even Pritzel, ''Thesaurus'' ed. 2, 346, no. 10246. 1877, gives only the 

 inclusive dates 1840-56 for the six volumes, although in the first edition 

 of that work, 1851, p. 322, no. 11222, he does give the dates of publi- 

 cation of the first three volumes as 1(1838-40), 2(1842), and 3(1843- 

 47). Wight's data are repeated below, verbatim: 



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Vol. I. 



Vol. 11. 



Nos. 2, 3, (Plates 21-60) 

 Nos. 4, 5, (61-100) 

 Nos. 6, 7, 8, (101-161) 

 No. 9, (162-181) 

 No. 10, (182-201) 

 Nos. 11, 12, (202-241) 

 Nos. 13, 14, (242-279) 

 Nos. 15, 16, (280-318) 



Sept. 1838. 

 Nov. 1838. 

 June 1839. 

 Au^. 1839. 

 Sept. 1839. 

 Nov. 1839. 

 Feb. 1840. 

 May 1840. 



Vol. Ill 



( 3 1 9-736 ) 



1 840-1 843. 



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Vol. IV 



Parts I. II. III. (737-1046) 

 Part IV. (1047-1162) 



1843 to Nov. 1845. 



Sept. 1846. 



Part 

 Part 

 Part 

 Part 



Vol. V. 



I. (1163-1282) 



Jan. 



11. (1283-1403) 



Aug. 



III. (1404-1501) 



Apr. 



IV. (1502-1621) 



May 



1848. 

 1848. 

 1849. 

 1850. 



Vol. VI 



Part I. Orchideae, (1622-1762) 

 Part II. (1763-1920) 



May 1851. 

 Jan. 1852. 



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(1921-2101) 



Mar. 1853. 



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♦Wight, R. Icones plantarum Indiae Orientals 6: viii. 1853. 



Plates bearing the legend ' ' Roxburghianae' ' represent redf awings of Roxburgh s 

 unpublished plates now at the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and thus represent Rox- 

 burghian species as described in his 'Tlora Indica" ed. 1,1 (1820), 2 (1824), and 

 ed. 2 (1832). Where two numbers appear, one above the other, the ''numerator ' 

 represents Wight's plate sequence (this number to be cited), the ''denominator 

 a reference to the species number in Wi ght & Amott's "Frodromus'' (1834). 



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