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Friday, February 7, 2014

The African Glen

The Malay Archipelago

The World at Home

In the Eastern Seas

Travels in the East Indian Archipelago

Life and travel in India: Being recollections of a Journey before the day of Railroads



Travels in India



Imagine a time when it would benefit to know what place made what commodity.
Carpets of silk and gold Vs woollen carpet.
While talking about Ancient India's grandeur, there's a reference to a 7 foot fine silk cloth that could be folded into a match box. wasnt an old wive's tale.
Indigo making
Three barks of Cinnamon. The Art of cutting only the first two barks.
Making Camphor from Cinnamon fruits.
Loaf Sugar


News

Radioglaciology - Radars that work through ice

India Art and Culture

India: Art and Culture, 1300 1900

India Art and Culture

Elgin Marbles

Lala Deen Dayal's pictures of Hyderabad show a child wearing a saree.


Transactions of the Linnaen Society of London Vol 13



On a Pelican like bird
Experiments on moss

A Natural history of the palette



If you have tuned to the news, then you know about the source of strawberry in Starbucks drinks.
Interesting story about Indian yellow

A Dictionary of the Economic products of India

Cyclopaedia of India : products of mineral, vegetable and animal kingdon