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THESE books are the fifth and sixth volumes of notes from the diary kept during the half-century now almost complete, by Sir M. E. Grant Duff. These pages, dealing with the years during which the author was Governor of Madras, are largely filled with extracts from the letters received from friends in Europe and elsewhere, interspersed with interesting information concerning the flora of Southern India.
Notes from a Diary: kept chiefly in Southern India,
1881–1886. By the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Grant Duff. In Two Volumes. Vol. i., pp. xii + 373; vol. ii., pp. 373. (London: John Murray, 1899.)
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Notes from a Diary: kept chiefly in Southern India, 1881–1886. Nature 59, 582 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059582a0
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