Catalogue of the Plants which have been Cultivated in the Hon. East India Company’s Botanical Garden Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden

1N presenting this Catalogue to the Public it has been deemed necessary to explain briefly the circamstances conaecte0 with its publication and the causes of the delay that has occurred in its appearance as well as to furnish a short iketch of the Life of the Compiler. [...] his firm integrity of purlose his unbending independence of mind th !. simplicity and sincerity of his character his diinterested and f-Othful discharge of duty his sterling worth as a man and a friend and the ardour of his affection in the more tender relations of life—but the brief nature of this sketch forbids it. [...] After the first sixteen pages had passed through the Press ho--.ver obstacles arose to the acceptance of she Society's offa and the printing of the work was suspended ; so that when in 1842 the temporary charge of the H. C. Botanic Garden furnished him with opportunities for making additions to the wo.k he` eagerly improved them to the utmost of his rower. [...] '- It will be on the ground of its being a Genera of Plants of rover Bengal Lad its great practical utility that I shall be C delighted to recommend it as the systematic hand-book of the cc Botanical rs as such it will constitute era the second in " Bengal Botziny."The Irdexes and other parts necessary to the publication of the Catalogue were sti'l untouched when Mr. [...] It gives the habit of the Plant with - some information regarding the flower the native country and time of flowering and seeding from cosult:+ion of the las; parts of which much instruction may be derived as to the selection of species for iatroiuction the necessity of changing the mode of cultivation etc.