Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills; their social customs and religious rites from the rough notes of a German missionary
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Title:
Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills; their social customs and religious rites from the rough notes of a German missionary
Added title page title:
Tribes of the Neilbherries
Creator:
O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895 ( Editor )
Metz, J. Franz ( Contributor )
Place of Publication:
Madras
Publisher:
[publisher not identified]
Publication Date:
Language:
English
Physical Description:
124 p.

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Manners and customs ( lcsh )
Nilgiri Hills (India) -- Social life and customs ( lcsh )
Temporal Coverage:
- 1856
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Tamil Nadu -- Nilgiri Mountains
Asia -- Tamil Nadu -- Chennai District -- Chennai
एशिया - तमिलनाडु - नीलगिरि पर्वत
एशिया - तमिलनाडु - चेन्नई जिला - चेन्नई
Coordinates:
11.375 x 76.75833
13.083333 x 80.266667

Notes

General Note:
This copy signed by "F. Metz". Johann Friedrich Metz is reputed to have been the German missionary of the title. Johann Friedrich Metz is identified by the Natural History Museum (British), cf, JSTOR record https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000400753 -- While residing at Mangalore, India, Swiss missionary Johann Friedrich Metz was commissioned by the German Rudolph F. Hohenacker to make plant collections for distribution to European botanists. Not a botanist himself, he was nevertheless happy to collect and sell plants in order to earn funds that could be put towards buildings for the Basel Mission in India. He collected in Kanara on the southern Konkan coast, followed by Coorg (Kodagu) in the Western Ghats and Keti near Ootacamund in the Nilgiri Hills. Metz was one of the first missionaries to collect plants in Cochin (Kochi). -- With Hohenacker, Metz published some work on his collections, such as "Sammlungen ostindischer Pflanzen aus Canara und den Nilgherries" (Botanische Zeitung, 1851). He also committed to paper his observations of the indigenous people of the region, such as his 1856 account, Tribes inhabiting the Nilgherry Hills. -- Source: R.R. Stewart, 1982, "Missionaries and Clergymen as Botanists in India and Pakistan", Taxon, 31(1): 58. -- Some bibliographic sources report F. Metz as J. Franz Metz.

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SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
SOAS University of London
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Resource Identifier:
254661159 ( OCLC )
Pam India. Q / 97460