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28 Madras Journal of Lit. & Science vol. IV 1836 - R. Wight Flora of Courtallum.

p. 61 Plants cultivated not by seed, seem to lose power of producing seed; so with plantain, "the Portia has nearly ceased to produce seed in this country, though quite healthy & bears abundance of flowers" "so of Plumieria alba." he never found fruit. Whether this view right I doubt wd die out, if not capable of propagation by other means.

[in margin:] No mountains greater changes.

[Robert Wight. 1836. Observations on the flora of Courtallum. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 4 (July): 57-66.]

p. 67. Capt. J. Allardyce on the Vegetation of the Neilgherries - some identical with Europæan.

p. 69. The Europæan Heaths probably inhabitants of N Africa heaths of S. Africa & N. Europe interrupted by equatorial regions — Now in my view once united; but if so the species ought to be same, as in case of Terra del Fuego.

[James Allardyce. 1836. Remarks on the Vegetation of the Neilgherries. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 4 (July): 67-73.]

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Vol V p. 283 R. Wight Statistical observations on the Vurragherries, near Dindigul Pulney Mountains (in India) (Quoted) highest peaks 8000 ft above sea 2 Ranunculus 3 Clematis 2 Barberry 1 Parnassia 2 Drosera 1 Stellaria 1 Cerastinus 1 Rose 3 or 4 Rasps 1 Potentilla &c &c

Amongst tropical [four] a Magnolia a fig 4 species of Palms - a branching variety of the Tree-fern.

[Robert Wight. 1837. Statistical observations on the Vurragherries, or Pulney Mountains. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 5 (April): 280-289.]

Vol X p. 106 W. Elliot Catalogue of the Mammalia of the Mahratta country

p 106 2 vars of the Felis pandus larger & smaller

[Walter Elliot. 1839. A catalogue of the species of mammalia found in the Southern Mahratta Country; with their synonimes in the native languages in use there. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 10 (July): 92-108.]

p 219 The Indian wild Hog differs considerably from the German. The head of former longer & more pointed & the plane of forehead straight: ears smaller & pointed & whole body lighter "The same differences are perceptible in the domesticated individuals of the two countries"

[Walter Elliot. 1839. A catalogue of the species of mammalia found in the Southern Mahratta Country; with their synonimes in the native languages in use there. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 10 (October): 207-233.]

[V. XXII] p. 2 Mr T. C. Jerdon remarks the Gallus Bankiva hardly distinguishable from some of the domestic vars: "& unquestionably the origin of most of the varieties of our common fowls"

[Variation 1: 237 n: "Mr. Jerdon, in the 'Madras Journ. of Lit. and Science,' vol. xxii. p. 2, speaking of G. bankiva, says, "unquestionably the origin of most of the varieties of our common fowls." For Mr. Blyth, see his excellent article in 'Gardener's Chron.' 1851, p. 619; and in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. xx., 1847, p. 388."
T. C. Jerdon. 1840. Catalogue of the birds of Peninsula if India. Madras journal of literature and science, vol. 12 (July): 2-15.]