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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. "Address respecting an Agricultural Society in India." The Friend of India, (Quarterly Series). Vol. 1. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1819. Pp. 54-64 [electronic edition].
*__________. "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
*_____________. "Botany." The Friend of India. Vol. VII. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1824. Pp. 54-56, 85-88, 115-120, 148-152, 180-184.
These pages include extended Linnaean lists of botanical specimens in Carey's "Mission Garden" (p. 180) at Serampore.
--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.
*_____________. "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.
*_____________. "VII. Natural History—The Vulture." The Friend of India. Vol. I. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1818. Pp. 259-261.
This is an ornithological description of the Vultur genus. In his description, Carey included his copied observations from "a MSS. of H. T. Colebrooke, Esq."
--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.
*_____________. "VII. Paradisea. The Paradise Bird." The Friend of India. Vol. I. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1818. Pp. 313-315.
This is an ornithological description of the Paradisea apoda. In this description of a live bird from Amboyna in his possession, Carey remarked, "One of mine when it moulted, lost nearly all its feathers in a few days, and was several months before the hypochondrial feathers were reproduced, during all which time the bird might have been easily mistaken for one of even a different genus."
--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.
*_____________. "IX. Natural History—Genus Falco." The Friend of India. Vol. II. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1819. Pp. 179-192.
This is an extended ornithological description of the Falco genus, which Carey indicates as including "Eagles, Falcons, Buzzards, Kites, and Hawks."
--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.
*_____________. "On the Study of Nature." The Friend of India (Monthly Series). Vol. VIII. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1825. Pp. 247-250.
Dr. Lalchungnunga, Principal, Serampore College, has given the Carey Center kind permission to present this rarely cited essay by Carey.
--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.
*__________. "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.
*__________. "State of Agriculture in the District of Dinájpur." Asiatic Researches. Vol. 10. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, et al., 1811. Pp. 1-26.
*____________. "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.
____________ 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.
Montgomery, James. " The 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 Gentleman's Magazine 157 (1835): 529.
*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.
*Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. V. [Serampore]: Printed at the Serampore Press, 1838.
*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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