Botanical Article Bibliographic Records
HI Number 153648
Author: Wallich, Nathaniel
Coauthors:
Title: On Joomla mountain rice, Victoria wheat, and the fibre of the pineapple.
MLP no: 1364
BPH Series Abbreviation:
Trans. Agric. Soc. India
Citation: 3: 82-94. 1837.
[ed. 2], 3: 82-94. 1839.
Year(s):
1837–1839
Note: Pp. 82-84, Wallich's letter to John Bell, dated 30 May, 1836, in which he asks Bell to present the following at the Society's next meeting:
1) 12 papers about an interesting sort of rice from the mountains of Joomla towards the Himalaya, in Nepal, & an extract of an article by him about the rice in vol. 39 of the Trans. Roy. Soc. Arts; letters from Robert Stuart & W. Anderson about the rice.
2) A bundle of ears of Victoria wheat produced in the Botanic Garden [Calcutta], with an extract from the Plymouth Journal concerning the wheat and a memorandum on it by Hamilton; also a printed notice about the American sumach, by Hamilton, with 2 small papers containing specimens of the insects which infested the tree; a number of plants of the Caesalpina coriaria which were raised at the Bot. Gard. from seeds sent by Hamilton.
3) a bag made from the fibre of the pineapple on the Khasia Hills.
1) 12 papers about an interesting sort of rice from the mountains of Joomla towards the Himalaya, in Nepal, & an extract of an article by him about the rice in vol. 39 of the Trans. Roy. Soc. Arts; letters from Robert Stuart & W. Anderson about the rice.
2) A bundle of ears of Victoria wheat produced in the Botanic Garden [Calcutta], with an extract from the Plymouth Journal concerning the wheat and a memorandum on it by Hamilton; also a printed notice about the American sumach, by Hamilton, with 2 small papers containing specimens of the insects which infested the tree; a number of plants of the Caesalpina coriaria which were raised at the Bot. Gard. from seeds sent by Hamilton.
3) a bag made from the fibre of the pineapple on the Khasia Hills.