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*Bennett, George.  "The English Daisy in India."  (Supposed to be addressed by the Rev. Dr. Wm. Carey, the learned and illustrious Baptist Missionary, to first plant of this species, which sprung up unexpectedly in his garden out of some English earth, in which other seeds had been conveyed to him from his native soil.)  The Congregational Magazine,  for the Year 1835.  (July 1835):424-26 [electronic edition]. 

*Carey, William. "Appendix: Prospectus for an Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India," Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India Volume 1. 1829.

Carey organized this society.  His prospectus insists that Indians must be accorded rights of membership and the privilege of holding office in the Society.

--Myron C. Noonkester

*____________. "XXXII. On the Manufacture of Paper Used by the Natives. To C. K. Robison, Esq." Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. II. Calcutta and Serampore: Printed, Partly at the Hurkaru Press, Hare Street, Calcutta; and Partly at the Serampore Press, 1836. pp. 87-88.

*_____________. "Dr. Carey's Address Respecting an Agricultural Society in India." in Essays Relative to the Habits, Character, and Moral Improvement of the Hindoos. London: Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1823. pp. 97-108.

*__________. "Remarks on the State of Agriculture, in the District of Dinajpur." In Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, For Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia.  Volume the Eleventh.  Printed Verbatim from the Calcutta Edition.  London: Printed for J. Cuthell, et al., 1812 [facsimile reprint, Elibron Classics Replica], pp. 1-27.

____________ and F. Carey. Vyuvuchoheda Vidya: or The Science of Anatomy. Translated into Bengalee from the 5th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica by F. Carey; the Whole Revised by W. Carey. Serampore:   , 1820.

The National Library of Denmark possesses a copy.

--Myron C. Noonkester

*Chatterjee, Sunil Kumar, compiler.  Family Letters of Dr. William Carey.  Serampore: Carey Library and Research Centre, 2002.

*Roxburgh, William and William Carey (ed.) Hortus Bengalensis, or, A Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Honourable East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Serampore: The Mission Press, 1814. 

*Roxburgh, William, Nathaniel Wallich and William Carey (ed.). Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants... To Which are Added Descriptions of Plants More recently Discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. 2 vols., Serampore: The Mission Press, 1820, 1824.

*Roxburgh, William and William Carey (ed.). Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants. 3 vols., Serampore: Printed for W. Thacker and Co., Calcutta, and Parbury, Allen and Co., London, 1832.

_______________.  Reprint. Quarto. 1874.

*Sivasundaram, Sujit. "'A Christian Benares': Orientalism, Science and the Serampore Mission of Bengal." The Indian Economic and Social History Review 44 (2007): 111-145.

The Center's signed copy was graciously provided by the author, Dr. Sivasundaram, of  Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

--Myron C Noonkester

*Societe Royale d'Agriculture et de Botanique a Gand. Fete Jubilaire. Salon d'hiver 1834 50me Exposition Publique. Ghent: D. J. Vanderhaeghen, 1834.

*Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. II. Calcutta and Serampore: Printed, Partly at the Hurkaru Press, Hare Street, Calcutta; and Partly at the Serampore Press, 1836.

*Voigt, Johann Otto. Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis.  A Catalogue of the Plants which have been Cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Gardern, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden Generally Known as Dr. Carey's Garden....from the Beginning of Both Establishments (1786 and 1800) to the End of August 1841. Calcutta: Printed under the Superintendence of W. Griffith, 1845. 

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