Publishing History > Peradeniya Manuals (H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, Colombo) - Book Series List
Peradeniya Manuals
Publisher: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer. Place: Colombo, Ceylon [now: Sri Lanka]. Series Dates: 1906-1911.
A Revised Catalogue of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ceylon
by John Christopher Willis and May Willis
Colombo, Ceylon: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1911 (Peradeniya Manuals, 2).
Joint Publisher: Dulau & Co., Soho Square, London, United Kingdom.
Hardback. 188 pages; 24 cm. The front cover of this book has a variant title: A Revised Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ceylon, Native and Introduced.
PERADENIYA MANUALS (H. C. COTTLE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, COLOMBO)
Series Note: The full name of this series is the Peradeniya Manuals of Botany, Entomology, Agriculture and Horticulture. The series is commonly referred by the general public as the Peradeniya Manuals and in academic books and journals as the Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Peradeniya.
The word "Peradeniya" refers to the Royal Botanical Gardens, in Peradeniya, an area located "about 5.5 km to the west of the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka". (Source)
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Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya (Wikipedia)
John Christopher Willis was the director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon. He held the post for fifteen years (1898-1912).
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Christopher John Willis (Wikipedia)
Christopher John Willis 1868-1958 (Royal Society Publishing)
Series Number / Title / Author / Publication Year / Other Details
1.
Rubber in the East; being the Official Account of the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition Held in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, in September, 1906
Edited by J. C. Willis [John Christopher Willis], Edward Brandis Denham, and M. Kelway Bamber
1906
4 preliminary leaves, 269 pages, frontispiece (portrait), illustrations, 23 plates (2 folded), 5 folded maps, 2 folded plans, 22 cm
2.
A Revised Catalogue of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ceylon
by J. W. Willis [John Christopher Willis] and M. Willis [Minnie Willis]
1906, 1911
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