Ray Desmond’s scientific contributions

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The European Discovery of the Indian Flora
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February 1993

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Rudolf Schmid

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Ray Desmond

List of plates The ancient world The first European settlements Arrival of the British Botanical research begins Sir William Jones The Roxburgh era Francis Buchanan Calcutta Botanic Garden after Roxburgh Other botanical gardens William Griffith and Robert Wight The Himalayas Ceylon Pursuit of the picturesque A century of change The search for useful plants Green medicine Tea and opium Rubber, coffee, and forestry Gardening in India Indian flowers in European gardens Transportation of plants Epilogue Bibliography Index.

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... But after the visit of Linnaeus's pupil J.G. Koenig in India, and joining the society of "The United Brothers" at Tranquebar in 1768, an extensive, organized with collaboration with more than one institutions or organizations. The research articles on the history of botanical explorations in India, time to time were published by several stalwarts such as King (1899), Agharkar (1949), Biswas (1943), Santapau (1956), Burkill (1965), Subramanyam (1977), Stewart (1982), Desmond (1992), Rau (1994) and Pandurangan et al. (2015) etc. The detailed comprehensive account of history of plant explorations of India with details of plant explorers is described by the author. ...

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HISTORY AND FOOTPRINTS OF PLANT EXPLORATIONS IN INDIAN SUB CONTINENT
The European Discovery of the Indian Flora
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  • February 1993

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Rudolf Schmid

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Ray Desmond