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“...PLANTS of the COAST OF COROMANDEL; selected from DRAWINGS AND DESCRIPTIONS presented to THE HON. COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. BY WILLIAM ROXBURGH, M.D. published, by their order, under the direction OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. p. r. s. VOL. I. london: printed by w. bulmer and co. for george nicol, bookseller to his majesty, PALL-MALL. 1795....”
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“...PREFACE. * The present Fasciculus of Plants growing on the Coast of Coromandel, being the first of a.progressive work, with which the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company has determined to favour the public, it is hoped, will prove as acceptable to the lovers of Botany in general, as useful at the Company's establishments abroad. It is intended that the selection should be made from five hundred drawings and descriptions, pre- sented to the Honourable Court of Directors by Dr. William Roxburgh, one of the Company's medical servants, and their Botanist in the Carnatic; and, with a more immediate view to utility, while preference will be given to subjects connected either with medicine, the arts, cy: manufactures, the liberality o.f the# Jdonourable Court of Directors encourages the admission of new plants, or of such as have hitherto been imperfectly described, although their qualities and uses may as yet remain unexplored. After all that has been already done, India still...”
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“...acceptable to the " public; particularly in respect to the article of tin ore." He mentioned at the same time his having had the honour of letters from the President of the.Royal Society, and the Honourable Charles Greville, requesting specimens ofhis collection, which it was his intention to transmit to them, as the best means of rendering his "discoveries useful in England. He intimated also his intention of sending tqSt* Helena, by the ships then on departure, the seeds of such esculent and other plants, and of such treSor fflifubs as he had then got ready, and might probably be of use in that island. Having now determined to devote his future time entirely to the service of the India Company, the Board of Madras was pleased, in 1780, to make an addition to his salary, which met with the appro- bation of the Honourable Court of Directors. Hel^inhlZw5 "0tf rng the rr; be9Ueathed 10 Sir j0Seph Banks ; but -count of it is given by nennmgs. m his description of Tanjore, and of th e Danish colony...”
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“...following year he made a second excursion to Columbo. In the beginning of June, 1782, Dr. Patrick Russell, on his arrival in India, had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Koenig at Tranquebar, who not only communicated the catalogue of his Coromandel collection of plants, but as an inducement to engage in Indian Botany, favoured him with a number of specimens. From that time commenced a correspondence, which was continued till within a fort- night of Dr. Koenig's death. In 1784, Roenig fulfilled the promise he had given of a visit to his old friend Mr. Claud Russell, then chief at Vizagapatam. It was on his way to Bengal; but as he made some stay at Vizagapatam, Dr. Russell had time to submit to his examination a pretty large collection of plants made in that district, and to profit by his assistance in arranging them/ He took the opportunity also off urging to Dr. Koenig, (what lie had more than once hinted before in correspondence,) the propriety of trans- mitting to the Court of Directors, a select...”
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“...India. Considering it however as a public loss, if the design of Koenig should be entirely relinquished; and conceiving that many descriptions and remarks would be found among his papers, whife drawings from the living plants might be made in India, Dr. Russell resolved to attempt a work limited to the useful plants of Coromandel; which, though perhaps less generally interesting to the Botanists in Europe, he was inclined \o think might prove of real service to India. His plan was first communicated to the Governor of Madras, but afterwards explained more fully in a memorial addressed to the Medical Board; and meeting with the unanimous approbation of both, it was transmitted to the Honourable Court of Directors. In the interim, circular letters, with a list of the plants proposed for the first publication, was tsent by the Medical Board to the subordinate settlements, requesting it might be favoured with any infor- mation respecting the subjects in question, which the medical gentlemen...”
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“...PREFACE. v # had retained a painter constantly employed in drawing plants, which he accurately described, and added such remarks on their uses as he had learned from experience, or collected from the natives. Of these drawings and descriptions, which he devoted to the Honourable Court of Directors, the first parcel was received in 1791; others followed in succession; and the last parcel, which completed the number of five hundred, arrived in 1794. It is from these that the present Selection has been made; but many more drawings remain in India, ready to be sent home by the first opportunity t Dr. Roxburgh's industry has also for some years been employed in the cultivation of pepper and indigo, in one of the Northern Circars; and, besides a letter on the qualities of the Swietenia Bark, published by order of the Directors, he has communicated other discoveries, to be found in the Philo- sophical Transactions, the Indian Repertory, and the Asiatic Researches. Such commendable zeal in the...”
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“...Ebony Tree; in the first volume of the Transactions of the Society of Lund. Several letters, relating to the Natural History of the East Indies; in different volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Copenhagen, and of the Society of Berlin : as also in the Naturforscher. A great number of plants discovered by Koenig, are found in Retzii Observationes Botanicae. In the third Fasciculus, are printed Koenig's Descriptiones Monandrarum; and in the sixth, his Descriptiones Epidendrorum. An Account of his voyage to Ceylon, in 17 7 7, is found in Hennings's Description of Tanjore, and the Danish colony at Tranquebar. In part XX. of the Naturforscher is an Account of a new Genus of Plants, called Xylocarpus. In the ninth volume of the Commentationes of the Society of Gottingen is a Memoir, by Professor Murray, on the Trees which produce the Gummi Gutta, entirely drawn up from Koenig's papers, sent to Professor Murray by Sir Joseph Banks. In the first volume of the Transactions of the...”
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“...PREFACE The present Fasciculus of Plants growing on the Coast of Coromandel, being the first of a.progressive work, with which the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company has determined to favour the public, it is hoped, will prove as acceptable to the lovers of Botany in general, as useful at the Company's establishments abroad. It is intended that the selection should be made from five hundred drawings and descriptions, pre- sented to the Honourable Court of Directors by Dr. William Roxburgh, one of the Company's medical servants, and their Botanist in the Carnatic; and, with a more immediate view to utility, while preference will be given to subjects connected either with medicine, the arts, qr manufactures, the liberality o/the# JHonourable Court of Directors encourages the admission of new plants, or of such as have hitherto been imperfectly described, although their qualities and uses may as yet remain unexplored. After all that has been already done, India still presents...”
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“...to a great depth. Cattle are penned upon the ground for some time before it is sown, to manure it, or some other manure employed, generally the lightest; it is then'cleared of weeds, and its surface made level, if not so before. The seeds are mixed with much sand, and sown as soon as the rains begin in June or July (that is in the Circars); the sand is mixed with the seed to enable 'the sower to sow it suffi- ciently thin; it requires to be often watered if showers are not fre- quent, till the plants are about two or three inches high. The first watering is peculiar; some fresh cow-dung is mixed with the water, the chief object of which is to give the sand at the surface some de- gree of adhesion, which prevents the strong winds that prevail at this season from blowing away the seeds; after, it requires little or no care, few weeds grow in such a soil as fits this culture, of course a very little labour keepc it clean: if the season is remarkably wet, the quality of the roots are much injured...”