Descriptive List of Trees, Shrubs and Economic Herbs of the Southern Circle Central Provinces [India]

Description:

Scarce. Introduction states that the work covers 'The area included is the whole of the Southern Central Provinces excluding Berar and totals some 38,000 square miles …'. Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India a province of British India Henry Haselfoot Haines (1867-1945) trained as a forester at the Royal Engineering College at Cooper’s Hill, Surrey (established to prepare people for the Indian Forestry service). Haines arrived in Calcutta in 1888. He later served as Deputy Director of the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun and then as, Imperial Forest botanist.

His brother, Frederick Haselfoot Haines (1864-1946) was a Doctor and keen naturalist, who lived at Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester before moving to Appleslade, Linwood, in the New Forest. He built his own house in wood, which he felt would be more in keeping with his surroundings, and established a nature reserve.

Condition

small 8vo (), orig. cloth, lightly soiled. Good. Addendum tipped in. Ex libris label of naturalist Frederick Haselfoot Haines, and Hampshire ornithologist, Michael Bryant.