Flora of British India

[Gurcharan Singh]

A really great discovery for me at least, and I hope many others will be happy to know:

All the seven volumes of Flora of British India are available online. You can view them online or download in pdf format. I have started using them extensively.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/678#

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

[Dinesh Valke]

Many thanks Gurcharan ji for the link to Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Search facility in this library is on a broad scale ... yields results according to chosen category.

Only difficulty is: getting to find results, for say any genus, within the opened book.
Or perhaps, am missing some method to achieve that.


Here are the links to the seven volumes at Internet Archive.
The links open the book in Internet Archive BookReader ... a search panel is available at right side.
The difficulty here (for me !!) is that I may find the required genus in the 7th attempt.

Vol I Ranunculaceae - Polygaleae
http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin01hook#page/n5/mode/2up

Vol II Sabiaceae - Cornaceae
http://www.archive.org/stream/florabritishind00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/1up

Vol III Caprifoliaceae - Apocynaceae
http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin03hookrich#page/n5/mode/2up

Vol IV Asclepiadae - Amarantaceae
http://www.archive.org/stream/florabritishind03hookgoog#page/n8/mode/1up

Vol V Chenopodiaceae - Orchidae
http://www.archive.org/stream/florabritishind04hookgoog#page/n8/mode/1up

Vol VI Orchideae - Cyperaceae
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924050778673#page/n5/mode/2up

Vol VII Cyperaceae - Graminae
http://www.archive.org/stream/floraofbritishin07hook#page/n5/mode/2up



Regards.

[Pankaj Kumar]

Thats because they are low res. images of each page converted into
pdf. Hence you cant search for a particular thing. But there are other
site, where the text files of the books are available for free too.
Regards
Pankaj

[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Pankaj ji and Dineshji

Luckily space is no problem with USB high storage discs available. I have downloaded first volume, and may do others in a day or two. each file is roughly 50-60 mb each.

   Dinesh ji, locating genus is not a problem online because scrolling of pages in left panel is very fast. I go the last page, scroll through the index and locate the page number of genus. I find it a faster method.

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Balkar Arya]

Dear Gurcharan Ji and Dinesh Ji
You can find more stuff on botanicus.org

Regards

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

[Pankaj Kumar]

if you wish, I can post the cd of whatever I have, it will save your time. :))
No charges required :D.
Pankaj

[Dinesh Valke]

... please, dear friends,
It looks like my expression is not proper in earlier message.  :)

There is no downloading OR no storing ... am trying to avoid this process of downloading and storing. ... it is a self-owned liability ... and process of retrieval becomes endless.

Talking of using Internet Archive BookReader ... a browser plugin (downloads automatically if one chooses to view online version of the archived material).
That makes the whole process of reading and retrieving very simple

Please check one of the links that has been put by me.

Regards.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji

My answer was relating to Biodiversity link sent by me. It has left panel which scrolls very fast and can take you to the last page within seconds to read through the index and locate genus.

   Perhaps misunderstanding was that I was answering both you and Pankaj ji; you about the online search and Pankaj ji about hard storage. I have rarely seen you in this desperation that you are misunderstood. Take it lightly.

-- 
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[tanay bose]

Thanks all for the comments and lovely links , quite useful for me.

Tanay

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Tanay Bose
Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
Department of Botany
University of British Columbia
3529-6270 University Blvd.
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada)
Phone: 778-323-4036