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Taxonomic literature is an indispensable and essential resource that supports the research of systematic botanists and zoologists ...

Taxonomic literature, 1976-2009; (7 volumes & 8 supplements)

Flora of Assam This flora to the Indian state of Assam consists of 5 volumes printed as 6 books. It is a reprint of a flora originally published from 1934 and 1940. ...

Flora of Assam, 1934-1940;

Marshall R. Crosby & Robert E. Magill are both research scientists working with the Missouri Botanical Garden. They have written this book ...

A dictionary of mosses, 1978; (2nd edition)

Carl Adolph Agardh was a Swedish botanist specialising in algae. his reputation chiefly rests on his botanical works, especially Systema algarum, Species algarum rite cognitae and Classes plantarum ...

Dispositio algarum Sueciae, 1812;

Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, 1817;

Aphorismi botanici, 1817-1826;

Species algarum, 1821;

Systema algarum, 1824;

Classes Plantarum, 1825;

Icones algarum Europaearum, 1828-1835;

Adnotationes botanicae, 1829;

Edward Green Balfour was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India. He founded museums at Madras and Bangalore, a zoological garden in Madras and was instrumental in raising awareness on forest conservation ...

The timber trees, timber and fancy woods, 1862;

Charles James Bamber was a British Colonel who worked in India. This check-list has been highly influential in botany of Punjab and the north-west areas ...

Plants of the Punjab, 1916;

C. E. Baynes was an English botanist specialising in algae. his reputation chiefly rests on his botanical works, especially Album of Indian ferns published in 1887 ...

Album of Indian ferns, 1887;

Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became the Chief Conservator of the Madras Forest Department ...

The trees of the Madras Presidency, 1863;

The ferns of Southern India, 1863;

The ferns of British India, 1866; (2 volumes)

The Flora Sylvatica for southern India, 1869-73; (2 volumes)

Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, 1874; (3 volumes)

Supplement to the ferns of southern India and British India, 1876;

Handbook of the ferns of British India, Ceylon, and the Malay Peninsula, 1892;

Forester's Manual of Botany for southern India, 1869-74; Currently not available in the digital format

George Bentham was an English botanist specialising in algae. his reputation chiefly rests on his botanical works, especially Album of Indian ferns published in 1887 ...

Handbook of the British flora, 1858, 1920; 2 editions

Flora Hongkongensis, 1861;

Genera Plantarum, 1862-1883; 3 volumes

Ethelbert Blatter was a Jesuit priest from Switzerland who would go on to have a huge impact on botany in British India. His work on the flora ...

A bibliography of the botany of British India and Ceylon, 1911;

Flora Arabica, 1919-1936;

The Ferns of Bombay, 1922; co-authored with J. D. d'Almeida

Beautiful flowers of Kashmir, 1928; (2 volumes)

The Palms of British India and Ceylon, Indigenous and Introduced, 1910-1914; (10 volumes) Not available here; maybe copyrighted

Some beautiful Indian trees, 1954; co-authored with Walter Samuel Millard, Not available here; maybe copyrighted

Norman Loftus Bor was an Irish botanist. In 1962 the Linnean Society awarded him their gold medal, the highest recognition a botanist can receive. ...

Manual of Indian forest botany, 1953;

Thomas Fulton Bourdillon was the Conservator of Forests in the state of Travancore. During his 15-year reign, the forest department underwent ...

Report on the Forests of Travancore, 1893;

The forest trees of Travancore, 1908;

Dietrich Brandis was a German-British botanist and forestry academic and administrator, who worked with the British Imperial Forestry Service in colonial India for nearly 30 years ...

The forest flora of north-west and central India, 1874; with Illustrations

Indian trees, 1906;

John Cameron had a background in botany and had trained at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. We don’t know too much about John Cameron the person. ...

Catalogue of plants in the botanical garden, Bangalore, and its vicinity, 1891;

The forest trees of Mysore and Coorg, 1894;

Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn was a Madras-born Scottish physician who worked in India and pioneered as a botanist and in forest conservancy. Cleghorn, sometimes known as the father of scientific forestry in India, ...

The forests and gardens of south India, 1861;

Report upon the forests of the Punjab and the Western Himalaya, 1864;

Henry Colett was an English soldier and botanist. He served as an army officer in the East India Company. He was made a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1879. He was one of the founding members ...

Notes on some plants of the Himalaya, 1895;

Flora Simlensis, 1902 & 1921; 2 editions

Theodore Cooke was an English botanist , who worked extensively on the flora of India. His research focused on forest compositions, vegetation cover and its relationship with its forest canopy. ...

The flora of the Presidency of Bombay, 1903-1908; 2 volumes

Nicholas Alexander Dalzell was a Scottish botanist and someone who had an important role to play in botany. He was among the first people to ...

The Bombay Flora, 1861; co-authored with Alexander Gibson

David Don was a Scottish botanist. Don was librarian to the botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert and compiled for him, Prodromus florae nepalensis ...

Prodromus florae Nepalensis, 1825;

Heber Drury was an Army Officer from Britain who made significant contributions to botany in India. While working during his spare time ...

Hand-book of the Indian flora, 1864-1869;

The useful plants of India, 1873;

John Firminger Duthie was an English botanist and explorer. From 1875 to 1903 he was the Superintendent of Saharanpur Botanical Gardens ...

The fodder grasses of northern India, 1888;

Flora of the Upper Gangetic Plain, 1903-1915; 3 volumes + Map

Catalogue of the plants of Kumaon, 1906;

Philip Furley Fyson was a botanist and educator who dedicated his life to working in India. He became an important figure in botany due to him ...

A botany for India, 1912;

The flora of the Nilgiri and Pulney hill-tops, 1915-1920; (3 volumes)

The flora of the south Indian hill stations, 1932; (2 volumes)

James Sykes Gamble was a botanist from England who specialised in the flora of the Indian sub-continent. Later on, he became the director of ...

List of the trees, shrubs and large climbers found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal, 1878;

The Bambuseae of British India, 1896;

A manual of Indian timbers, 1902;

Flora of the Presidency of Madras, 1915–21; (3 volumes)

Alexander Gibson was a surgeon and botanist from Scotland who spent the majority of his career in India. Finding himself working as a surgeon ..

The Bombay Flora, 1861; co-authored with Nicholas Alexander Dalzell

Benjamin Heyne was a German botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a Botanist to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency ...

Tracts, historical and statistical, on India, 1814;

Robert Selby Hole was an English botanist , who worked extensively on the flora of India. His research focused on forest compositions, vegetation cover and its relationship with its forest canopy. ...

A manual of botany for Indian forest students, 1909;

On some Indian forest grasses and their oecology, 1911;

Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. ...

The flora of British India, 1875-1897; (7 volumes)

A sketch of the flora of British India, 1904;

Shiv Ram Kashyap was a botanist in British India. He was a specialist on the bryophytes especially from the Himalayan region. He has been called the father of Indian bryology. Kashyap studied the liverworts ...

Liverworts of the western Himalayas and the Panjab plain, 1929-1932; 2 parts

Lahore District Flora, 1936;

Sir George King was a British who had the distinction of being the first director of the Botanical Survey of India in 1890. He was also appointed ...

Materials for a flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 1889-1909; (17 volumes)

Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz was a German botanist in Kolkata. He explored Burma and Pegu, and spent three months in the Andaman Islands, of which he gave an exhaustive report in 1870 ...

Forest Flora of British Burma, 1877; (2 volumes)

John Lindley was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. During his professorship, he wrote many scientific and popular works as well as making significant contributions to the Botanical Register, ...

An introduction to the natural system of botany, 1830, 1836; 2 editions

The genera and species of orchidaceous plants, 1830-1840; with Plates

Nixus Plantarum, 1833;

The Vegetable Kingdom, 1846-1853; 3 editions

Folia orchidacea, 1852-1855;

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy" ...

Fundamenta botanica, 1735;

Critica botanica, 1737;

Flora Lapponica, 1937;

Genera plantarum, 1742; 1754; 2 editions

Flora Svecica, 1745;

Species plantarum, 1753; 2 volumes

Philosophia botanica, 1763-1792; 4 editions

Bibliotheca botanica, 1771-1772; 2 volumes

Système des plantes, 1804-1805; 5 volumes

Alfred Wyndham Lushington was an Anglo-Indian dendrologist born in Allahabad, India and who worked as a forest officer in the Madras Presidency ...

Vernacular list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency, 1915; (2 volumes)

Alexander Kyd Heyne was a German botanist, naturalist, and surgeon who worked in British India as a Botanist to Samalkot in the Madras Presidency ...

History of the Konkan, 1894; This is not a botany book; rather a book on the history of the Konkan coast

The flowering plants of western India, 1894;

David Prain was a Scottish physician remembered as a noted amateur botanist. He worked for many years in India working in the Calcutta Botanical Garden ...

Bengal plants, 1903;

Rama Rao was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. ...

Flowering plants of Travancore, 1814;

Hendrik van Rheede was a colonial administrator for the Dutch East India Company and a noted naturalist. From 1669 to 1676, he was the Governor ...

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, 1678-1703;

Henry Nicholas Ridley was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in Malaysia ...

The flora of Singapore, 1900; Journal Article

Materials for a flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 1907; (3 volumes)

The flora of the Malay Peninsula, 1922-1925; (5 volumes)

The dispersal of plants throughout the world, 1930;

Albrecht Wilhelm Roth was a British who had the distinction of being the first director of the Botanical Survey of India in 1890. He was also appointed ...*

Novae plantarum species praesertim Indiae Orientalis, 1821;

William Roxburgh was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is ...

Plants of the coast of Coromandel, 1795-1819; (3 volumes)

Hortus Bengalensis, 1814;

Flora Indica or descriptions of Indian plants, 1820-1824; (2 volumes)

John Lindsay Stewart was a 19th-century Scottish botanist remembered for his conservation of Indian forests. In 1860 he left his medical duties to become Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Saharunpore ...

Punjab plants, 1869;

William Alexander Talbot published books early in 1894. Since then a number of trees, shrubs and climbers, new to the Bombay presidency and some new to science, ...

Systematic list of the trees, shrubs and woody climbers of the Bombay Presidency, 1894

The Trees, Shrubs, and Woody-Climbers of the Bombay Presidency, 1902

Forest flora of the Bombay Presidency and Sind, 1909-1911 (2 volumes) Volume 1 not available here

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites was a noted British entomologist and botanist. He did not begin his career in botany, but it was accounting …

Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae (An enumeration of Ceylon plants) by Thwaites, 1864;

Henry Trimen was a British botanist whose work took him to Sri Lanka. There, he became well-known for his work in the field of botany as he ...

A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon, 1893-1931; (6+1 volumes)

Hugh Trotter was an English soldier and botanist. He served as an army officer in the East India Company. He was made a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1879. He was one of the founding members ...

The common commercial timbers of India and their uses, 1929;

Manual of Indian forest utilization, 1940;

William Barwell Turner was a botanist and expert on the Desmidieae. He became President of the Leeds Naturalists' Club in 1881. ...

Algae aqua dulcis Indiae orientalis, 1892;

Nathaniel Wolff Wallich was a surgeon of Danish origin who went on to make significant contributions in botany. He worked for both the British ...

Tentamen Florae Nepalensis Illustratae, 1824-1826;

Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, 1830-1832; (2 volumes)

Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest ...

Contributions to the botany of India, 1834;

Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis, 1834; (only 1 volume published) co-authored with George Arnott Walker-Arnott

Illustrations of Indian Botany, 1838–1850; (2+1 volumes)

Icones Plantarum Indiæ Orientalis or Figures of Indian plants, 1840-1853; (6 volumes)

Spicilegium Neilgherrense or a of selection Neilgherry plants, 1845–1851; (2 volumes)

John Christopher Willis was an English botanist known for his Age and Area hypothesis and criticism of natural selection. In 1896 he was appointed Director of the ...

A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns, 1897-1985; (There are 8 editions available; only 2, 3, 4 available here)

Age and area, 1922;