lxxx BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOTANY OF BRITISH INDIA. 



where the libraries are few and where these few libraries have no 

 special tendency towards developing a scientific taste in the minds 

 of their subscribers. As I had no opportunity of consulting- the 

 library in Calcutta, I had to drop the idea of getting up a list of 

 works on Indian Botanjr which might be called somewhat complete, 

 and it was only after my return to Europe that I was able to work 

 up the bibliography to the present state, in which I wish to present 

 it to my colleagues in India and Europe. Imperfect though it 

 may be in many respects, I feel confident that the list, even in this 

 form, will be welcome to many workers in Indian Botany, because, 

 as far as I know, no attempt to supply the need has been made up 

 to the present. 



I considered it convenient to include a good many papers which 

 appeared in the publications of the Indian Departments of Agri- 

 culture and Forestry, as well as papers from pharmaceutical and 

 horticultural journals. But I omitted all those which treat exclu- 

 sively of the specific technical side of the respective branch of 

 science'. Opinions may, therefore, be divided in many cases as to 

 the advisability of including or excluding a certain paper. I 

 have, besides, catalogued some of the more important monographs, 

 dictionaries, etc., which, though they do not deal exclusively with 

 Indian Botany, contain, nevertheless, valuable information on the 

 subject. 



As to the arrangement of the bibliography I have, after long- 

 consideration and on the advice of friends interested in it, decided 

 to divide the whole list into .two parts. 



The first part (I) is to contain publications which treat of the 

 Botany of India in general or of a greater part of India. It 

 will also contain descriptions of single species which are not 

 confined to a very limited locality and papers on plants of ex- 

 tensive cultivation (whether indigenous or not), though they may 

 be restricted to well denned areas. 



The second part (II) will enumerate the books and papers 

 describing the Botany of smaller areas which are included entirely 

 or at least for the greater part in one of the botanical regions 

 recognised at present in India, viz. : The Eastern Himalayas, the 

 Western Hymalayas, the Indus Plain, the Gangetic Plain, 



