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PREFACE. 
and - Garden Crops of the North Western Provinces prepared by 
Mr. Duthie and Mr., now Sir Bampfylde, Fuller. 
The Government of India, the Missouri Botanical Garden, 
the Agricultural Bureau and the Smithsonian Institution of 
America, as well as the Board of Agriculture of England, have 
greatly helped us in the preparation of this work by their sup- 
plying us with some of their publications bearing on the subject. 
Some of those works on Botany which were not in the library 
of the late Colonel Kirtikar were very kindly lent to us by 
Colonel Gage from the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Shibpur; by the late Mr. Harinath De, M.A , I E.S , from the 
Imperial Library, Calcutta, of which he was the librarian ; and 
by Mr. Hole from the Library of the Imperial Forest Research 
Institute, Dehra Dun. To all these gentlemen, our best thanks 
are due. 
Colonel Gage also very kindly gave instructions to the mem- 
bers of the staff serving under him to assist us in every way in 
their power in the preparation of this work. The late Mr. M. S. 
Ramaswami M.A., and Babu Sashi Bhushan Banerji were of 
great help to us. 
Professor Bhim Chandra Chatterji, was advertised as one of 
the joint authors of this work. But his portion of the work not 
being ready, it is regretted it has not been published with this. 
My best thanks are due to Babu Chintamani Ghosh, the en- 
terprising proprietor of the well-known Indian Press, who has 
taken great interest in and trouble for this work. He deputed his 
talented artist, Mr. Sommer, to Europe to fetch large-sized litho- 
graphic stones and art-paper for its printing. Without his 
help and supervision, it would have been impossible to bring out 
the work in its present get-up, which has exceede,d my expect- 
ations. 
The enlightened Maharaja Bahadur of Cos9imbazar, the 
Hon’ble Sir Manindra Chandra Nandy, K. C. I. E., with his accus- 
tomed munificence, has contributed ten thousand rupees to meet 
a portion of the expenses incurred in the production of this work. 
Our heartiest thanks are due to him for this handsome donation. 
Allahahad : B. D. BASU. 
1st January , 1918. 
