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Excerpt from Flora Indica, Vol. 1: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India; Together With Observations on the Structure and Affinities of Their Natural Orders and Genera
The other great obstacle has been the immense number of works, and especially of periodicals, we have had to consult l 20 authors' names are attached to the 430 species described, and the completion of the Flora Indica' will require a te ference to upwards of 1000 volumes. We would now th ere fore call the attention of our fellow-botanists to the fact, that the time is rapidly approaching, when the difficulty of ob taining access to the necessary periodicals must render the effectual study of botany ini possible; and that the practice of naturalists sending their several papers to di?'erent periodi cals, and above all to local ones, or to such as embrace many branches of science, is one of the greatest obstacles to the study of natural history in the present day. We have found it impossible to obtain access to several journals of local or of ephemeral interest, and it would be well if isolated naturalists paused before they sought to establish such, or to send their contributions where they mu st be inevitably overlooked.
After a careful review of the state of botanical literature, in this country at any rate, we have no hesitation in saying that the Transactions of well-established Associations for the fur therance of natural science, diffuse most effectually the labours of naturalists. This is because these societies are supported by persons whose interest it is to disseminate their publica tions at the smallest possible delay and cost; and, what is of great importance, all papers communicated are subjected to a system of supervision before publication, which en sures their being worthy of it.
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