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The RHODODENDRONS of the SIKKIM-HIMALAYA ; being an Account 
of the Rhododendrons recently discovered on the mountains of Eastern 
Himalaya. By Josk?H DALTON Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. Edited 
dy Sir W. J. Hooxer, K.H., F.R.S. Part I., 1849. Part IL, 1851. 
Imperial folio. : 
The progress of our acquaintance with East Indian Zricee (taking 
the family in its widest extent, so as to comprise the Cranberries) 
presents some curious features, which it may not be uninteresting to 
place before the reader. I will, therefore, preface my few remarks on 
the above important work with a condensed chronological summary of 
authors and their publications on the family, giving the abstract num- 
ber of genera and species of each, as far as practicable, but without any 
analysis or reduction; their total amount having accordingly no direct 
reference to the actual state of our knowledge, since several of the 
genera have been abandoned, and many species are mere repetitions or 
else synonyms. 
1712. Kæmpfer, Amenitates Exotica : Rhododendron, 1; Azalea, 2 ; 
Vaccinium, 2: of all of which there are specimens in his original 
herbarium, preserved in the Sloanean collection at the British 
Museum. 
1768. N. L. Burmann, Flora Indica : Rhododendron, 1; Azalea, 1. 
1780. C. Thunberg, Flora Japonica : Rhododendron, 1 ; Andromeda, 1 ; 
Vaccinium, 3. ; 
1789. R. Saunders, Some account of the vegetable and mineral produc- 
tions of Bootan and Thibet, in Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixxix. 
(republished in 1800, as an appendix to Turner’s ‘ Embassy to 
