*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]. 

*Bole, P. V.  "Flora Indica or Descriptions of Indian Plants.  By William Roxburgh with Additions and Observations by Nathaniel Wallich.  Volumes One and Two.  Edited by William Carey; with an Introduction by D. H. Nicolson.  New York: Oriole Editions, 1975."  The Quarterly Review of Biology 51/3 (September 1976):442-43 [electronic edition].

Though this book review is a congratulatory piece on the reprinting of the first edition of Flora Indica (1820, 1824), this article also contains a comprehensive review of Carey's role in the complex literary history of Flora Indica.

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*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].

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

These pages include extended Linnaean lists of botanical specimens in Carey's "Mission Garden" (p. 180) at Serampore.

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Lalchungnunga, Principal, Serampore College, has given the Carey Center kind permission to present this rarely cited essay by Carey.

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*_____________.  "XXII. On a Disease incident to Ulsee and other grain.  Papers and correspondence in continuation of article LVIII. vol. II. shewing the progress of the blight, with the opinions of the late Dr. Carey and Major Sleeman, on the nature of it; and the effects produced by it on the human frame."  Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. VI. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, 1839.  Pp. 70-90.

This article includes three letters from Dr. William Carey to Sir Edward Ryan, Knt., respectively dated 5 March 1830, 17 March 1830, and 26, March 1830.  Ryan was justice on the Calcutta Supreme Court, and from 1833-1842, he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta.  Ryan was a friend of Governor General William Bentinck, T. B. Macaulay, and Charles Trevelyan.

-Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*_____________. "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

Fleming, John, M.D. [and William Carey].  "A Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs, with Their Names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit Languages."  Asiatick Researches, 11 (London: Printed for J. Cuthell et al., 1812), pp. 153-96.

    The association of John Fleming, M.D., and William Carey, D.D., is of interest and reviewed in the following article:

    James Prinsep, ed.  "Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, Wednesday Evening, July 2, 1834." The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.  3 (January-December 1834):303-304.

*________.  "William Carey on Contemporary Field of Indian Science."  In Homage to Rev. Dr. William Carey on His 180th Date of Demise.  Edited by Tapan Banerjee.  Serampore College: Carey Library and Research Centre, 2014.

*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.

*_____________.  Flora Indica; or, Descriptions of Indian Plants. By the Late William Roxburgh, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c., &c. Reprinted Literatim from Carey's Edition of 1832. Price Five Rupees. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., Bombay: Thacker, Vining and Co.; Madras: Higginbotham and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1874. Quarto. 1874.

*Sealy, J. R.  "The Roxburgh Flora Indica Drawings at Kew."  Kew Bulletin 11/2 (1956):297-348 [electronic edition].

*_____________.  "The Roxburgh Flora Indica Drawings at Kew" (cont.).  Kew Bulletin 11/3 (1956):349-99. [electronic edition].

*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. 

Created: December 20, 2000              Updated:  June 11, 2019