Volume 1

Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost].

  • Reinhold Rost
Date:
1887
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Credit: Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sumatra, is impossible. It is a task to be undertaken when the Flora of the Peninsula is put in hand, as I hope it will be, by Dr. King. I have urged that the Government of the 1 Straits Settlements ’ should contribute the funds for such a Flora; and in case of its being undertaken, I would suggest that an intelli- gent educated native, with an eye for, and a knowledge of, the important trees, shrubs, &c., should be consulted as to every native name adopted in the work. I know by experience how little trust is to be put in native names collected anyhow, and that the credit given to natives for a really trustworthy native nomenclature is, beyond a certain point, visionary.” R. Rost. London, September 1887.
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