Buch, Englisch, 5516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 290 mm x 363 mm, Gewicht: 9593 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
Buch, Englisch, 5516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 290 mm x 363 mm, Gewicht: 9593 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
ISBN: 978-1-108-06882-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
A Scottish doctor and botanist, George Watt (1851–1930) had studied the flora of India for more than a decade before he took on the task of compiling this monumental work. Assisted by numerous contributors, he set about organising vast amounts of information on India's commercial plants and produce, including scientific and vernacular names, properties, domestic and medical uses, trade statistics, and published sources. Watt hoped that the dictionary, 'though not a strictly scientific publication', would be found 'sufficiently accurate in its scientific details for all practical and commercial purposes'. First published in six volumes between 1889 and 1893, with an index volume completed in 1896, the whole work is now reissued in nine separate parts. Volume 1 includes the prefatory matter, along with lists of works consulted, contributors and abbreviations. Volume 6 is split into four parts, with the index included as an appendix in the last part.
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Volume 1: Preface (1); Preface (2); List of works consulted; List of officers; List of abbreviations; Abaca to Buxus. Volume 2: Cabbage to Cyperus. Volume 3: Preface; Dacrydium to Gordonia. Volume 4: Gossypium to Linociera. Volume 5: Preface; Linum to oyster. Volume 6, Part 1: Preface; Pachyrhizus to rye. Volume 6, Part 2: Sabadilla to silica. Volume 6, Part 3: Silk to tea. Volume 6, Part 4: Tectona to Zygophillum; Index.
