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THE notice of this important undertaking in a recent number of NATURE (November 1, p. 4), seems to me somewhat unsympathetic, and scarcely to do justice to its undoubted merits. At any rate, the Government of India, at whose instance the Dictionary was prepared, might draw the conclusion from the review that the work was more open to criticism than I believe to be really the case. A British Government is never too ready to undertake an enterprise of this kind, and anything of the nature of a disappointment, when it has made the experiment, is little likely to induce it to make another.
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THISELTON-DYER, W. Dr. Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India. Nature 51, 150 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051150a0
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