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STUDIES IX INDIAN COTTOXS 

 PART I 



The Vegetative Characters ^^■ 



H. MARTIN LEAKE, MA., F.L.8. 



Economic Botanist to Government, United Frovincea 



RAM PRASAD, 



Assistant to the Economic Botunist. 



The present note is intended to bring up to date the results of 

 the experiments in the improvement of the cottons in the United 

 Provinces of Agra and Oudh. The work which has been in steady 

 progress since the autunm of 1904, was commenced at Saharanpur 

 and continued since 1906, on the Botanical area of the Govern- 

 ment Agricultural Station, Cawnpore. During this period a certain 

 number of pubhcations based on this work have been made and 

 are here noted : — 



(1) Jour. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, IV. 1, p. 13. 



(2) Do. do. do. V 1, p. 23. 



(3) Proc. Roy. Soc, B. 83, p. 447. 



(4) Journal of Genetics I (ii), 3. 



(5) Memoirs of the Dept. of Agri. in India, Boranicai Series, 



IV No. 3. 



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