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Search - Catalogue Of The Economic Products Of The Presidency Of Bombay: Being A Catalogue Of The Government Central Museum

Catalogue Of The Economic Products Of The Presidency Of Bombay Being A Catalogue Of The Government Central Museum
Author: Various

CATALOGUE OF THE ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF THE PRESIDENCY OF BOMBAY BEING A CATALOGUE OF THE GOVERNMENT CENTRAL MUSEUM. DIVISION I.-RAW PRODUCE VEGETABLE. COMPILED BY ASSISTANT SURGEON BIRDWOOD. - PREFACE. THIS work was at first meant to be a simple catalogue of the economic specimens from the vegetable kingdom belonging to the Museum. But as these d... more »aily increased, and as the collection can only be regarded as in a provisional state until the Victoria Museum is ready for its reception, it appeared wiser to make it a catalogue of the vegetable produce of the Western Presidency. As the primary arrangement of its contents is economic, it will thus serve not only for the collection provisionally lodged in the Town Hall, but for the Victoria Museum. This is an advantage which fully compensates for the absence of the running numbers corresponding with numbers on the specimens, usual in cata- logues. The Museum is, however, not intended to be limited to the economic produce of this Government. It aims at illustrating the natural productions and industries of India, and of all other countries, particularly those in direct commercial connection with the great and growing store-city of Bombay. At present indeed little more than the Western Presidency is illustrated, and probably but little more than this will be done for some years. In the Catalogue, therefore, prominence is alone given to local products all others, Indian or foreign, are merely mentioned in their economic order, in the notes or remarks on the former. They are mentioned, whether in the Museum or not, that the Curator may always have his wants in mind, and able also at once on its receipt, to place any specimen on its proper shelf. This plan admirably preserves order in a growing museum. In the cases corresponding with the Classes ofthe Catalogue, the upper shelves are occupied by Bombay products, the next below by the products of the rest of India, and the remainder by those of other countries in the order of their proximity to Bombay. The collection is thus in a arranged first, in an economic point of view secondly, topographical and, thirdly, according to the natural system of De Candolle as followed by Balfour, In the Catalogue the topogra- phical arrangement is not indicated, exceptby inference. I have not, however, in all the classes confined myself to enlarging only on local products, and to instancing the chief foreign products. The drugs of an Indian Bazaar are one-half foreign, but I have catalogued each one prominently. On the other hand I have avoided the mention of drugs unknown to the natives of India. Under the Class of Woods I have specified only the best known foreign woods, and under the Miscellaneous Class, no foreign article. The reasons for the exceptions to the rule in the treatment of these and other classes are obvious. Under the Economic Classes, the natural orders are not numbered in the sequence they assume in these, which would give each order a different number in almost every Class, but according to their numbers in Balfour. This will avoid all confusion in turning from Class to Class, and facilitates reference from one to the other, and from all to Balfour, or any other work on the system of DeCandolle. Moreover, an appreciation ofthemutual relation ofthe natural orders, and the discrimination of such as are economic, from such as are not, is unconsciously taught...

ISBN-13: 9781406780451
ISBN-10: 1406780456
Publication Date: 9/10/2007
Pages: 376
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Publisher: Budge Press
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