The Silviculture of Indian Trees

Abstract

THE history of the East India Company is of interest to men of science from the evidence it affords of a sustained and enlightened desire to increase the natural knowledge of the economic vegetable resources of its territories. At times this took the form of approval of suggestions from India, as when the Board of Fort St. George was authorised in 1780 to employ a Government botanist in the Madras Presidency, of when the Council of Fort William received in 1787 “the most hearty approbation” of the Hon. Court of Directors in London for a proposal to establish a botanical garden in Bengal. At times the proposal emanated from the Hon. Court, as when in 1785 it was resolved to publish the sumptuous volumes of Roxburgh's “Plants of Coro-mandel,” or when in 1807 the Council of Fort William was informed that the directors were of opinion that a statistical survey of the country under the immediate authority of their presidency “would be attended with much utility,” and recommended “proper steps to be taken for carrying the same into execution.”

The Silviculture of Indian Trees.

By Prof. R. S. Troup. Vol. 1, Dilleniaceae to Leguminosae (Papilionaceae ). Pp. lviii + 336 + iii. Vol. 2, Leguminosae (Caesalpinieae) to Verbenaceae. Pp, xi + 337–783 + iv. Vol. 3, Lauraceae to Coniferae. Pp. xii + 785–1195. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921.) 3 vols. 5l. 5s. net.