300 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



A Catalogue of the Plants growing in Bombay and its 

 Vicinity, spontaneoKS, cultivated^ or introduced, as far as 

 they have been ascertained. By John Graham, Bombay, 

 1839. 

 Besides the late John Graham, Esq., Deputy Post-master- 

 General of the Bombay Presidency, whose name stands as the 

 Author of this Catalogue, Joseph Nimmo, Esq. of Bombay, 

 has been long knovvti as deeply interested ia the Botany oi 

 Western India, and with both of them we have enjoyed 

 correspondence. The Mst. of this work in question was pre- 

 sented to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of 

 Bombay in 1838, accompanied by the following letter, ad- 

 dressed to James Little, Esq., Secretary to the Society : — 



Sir,- — I beg to present to our Society a List of the Vege- 

 table productions of the Bombay Presidency, and to signify 

 my willingness to see it correctly through the press, should 

 the Society deem it worthy of publication. It has been 

 drawn up with great care, through the assistance of Mr 

 Nimmo, and not a single plant is put down which has not 

 been seen and examined by one or other of us. I need hard- 

 ly say, that such a List is much wanted by all who pay any 

 attention to tlie study of Botany, and will save much time 

 and trouble in consulting books and figures. — I am, &c. 



John Graham, 

 Member of the Ayric. and Aortic. Society. 



Tiie Committee of the Society promptly and liberally ac- 

 cepted the offer, and the printing of the Catalogue had pro- 

 ceeded under Mr Graham's superintendence, as far as the 

 •200th page, wlien death terminated his labours. The re- 

 mainder has been completed, the preface tells us, under the 

 superintendence of Mr Nimmo, who has been for many years 

 a zealous and successful labourer in the same field of service, 

 ami who has given the gratifying assurance that he will con- 

 tinue to dedicate his time to the investinration of this hitherto 

 neglected part of India, much of which still remains unex- 

 plored, and tluii he will print supplements to their Catalogue 



