Indian Medicinal Plants

One of the special features of the Indigenous Drugs Court was the exhibition of herbarium specimens and of drawings of almost all the known plants used in 'medicine in this country. [...] ix closure of the Exhibition while he was acting as Registrar of the High Court Allahabad lie enquired several times about the progress in printing of the present work more especially of the plates thus showing his interest in this publication. [...] I trust however whahas been done will PrOv e to your satisfaction." He has placed us under deep obligation by permitting us to ecipy and publish sorne of the original drawings by Roxburgh preserved in the Herbarium in the Royal Botanical Garden Shibpur and to reproduce some of the illustrations given in the Annals of it and also to have drawings made from the type specimens in that Herbarium [...] We are thankful to the publishers of Curtis's Botanical Magzine and of Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants for permision to copy some of the illustrations from their pUblications ; as also to the Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh for allowing us to copy a few illustrations frmn the Field"X PREFACE. [...] The Government of India the Missouri Botanical Garden the Agricultural Bureau and the Smithsonian Institution of America as well as the Board of Agriculture of England have greatly helped us in the preparation of this work by their suplying us with some of their publications bearing on the subject.