Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta

Abstract

THE Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, has been publishing from time to time a series of “Annals,” illustrative of the flora of the continent of India, the adjacent islands, and the contiguous countries. Volume v. of this work was published last year, and Part I consists of “A Century of Indian Orchids” by the chief of contemporary botanists, Sir Joseph Hooker. The Calcutta Garden has had the advantage of the services and labours of a long series of eminent botanists. Volume v. of the “Annals” is dedicated to perhaps the most distinguished of them, Roxburgh, superintendent from 1793 to 1814, and author of the “Plants of the Coromandel,” the “Hortus Bengalensis,” and the “Flora Indica,” of whom a portrait and a brief memoir are prefixed. It may be well to recall the names of Roxburgh's successors to show how well botany has been served in connection with these gardens. They have been Wallich, Falconer, Thomson, Anderson, Clarke, and King; the last named, an admirable administrator and a distinguished botanist, being still in charge.

Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.

Vol. v. Part 1. Pp. 9 + 68, 101 plates. (Calcutta: the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1895.)