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JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892 . 
The chief references to the Laccadive Archipelago are enume¬ 
rated below:— 
W. Hamilton. —Article “Laccadives/* in East India Gazetteer 
[1815] : a very brief notice of the group. 
J. Wood. —Extract from Lieut. Wood's Private Journal regard¬ 
ing the Lakeradeevh Archipelago, in Journ. of the Roy. Oeogr. 8oc., 
vol. vi. [1836] : contains a full account of Anderut, and gives in¬ 
formation concerning the other members of the group obtained 
from enquiries made by Lieut. Wood when in Anderut. 
W. Robinson. —Description of the Laccadive Islands, in Madras 
Journ. of Literature and Science, n. s., vol. xiv. [1847]: contains 
full accounts of the British Islands of the Archipelago, and is pre¬ 
ceded by an interesting and valuable historical preface, unfortunately 
unsigned, drawn up by a member of the Madras Society’s Editorial 
Committee. 
A. O. Hume. —The Laccadives and the West Coast, in Stray 
Feathers, vol. iv., [1876]: an excellent account of the reefs and 
islands visited by Mr, Hume. 
W. W. Hunter.— Article “ Laccadives,” in Imp. Gazetteer of 
India, ed. ii., vol. viii. [1886] : a somewhat inexact digest of pre¬ 
vious notices based chiefly, however, on that by Mr. (afterwards 
Sir William) Robinson. 
Administration Reports of the Marine Survey of India, 1887-8, 
1888-9, 1889-90, 1890-1, 1891-2, Topographical and hydrographical 
notices by Commander Carpenter, R. N., and Commander 
Hoskyn, R. N., with biological notices by Surg. Alcock, 
I.M.S. 
J. Shortt. —Monograph of the Cocoanut Palm [1888] : describes 
(p. 16) the process of coir-manufacture in the Laccadives. 
G. Watt.— Article “Cocos nucifera,” in Diet. Econ. Prod, of 
India, vol, ii. [1889] : describes the Laccadive coco-nut and coir 
trade. 
D. Prain.— A list of Laccadive Plants, in Sc. Mem. by Medical 
Officers of the Amy of India, part v. [1890] ; E. Roth, in Engler, 
Bot. Jahrb., vol. xii. [1890] ; W. B. Hemsloy, in Nature, 
vol. xlii. [1890]. 
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