garden at Saharanpoor, in a Sub-Himalayan region, which has been
successfully directed by Royle, Falconer, and Jameson.

On Dr. Roxburgh's death in 1815 Dr. Carey waited to see whether an
English botanist would publish the fruit of thirty years' labour of
his friend in the description of more than 2000 plants, natives of
Eastern Asia. At his own risk he then, in 1820, undertook this
publication, or the Flora Indica, placing on the title-page, "All
Thy works praise Thee, O Lord--David." When the Roxburgh MSS. were
made over to the library of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, the
fourth and final volume appeared with this note regarding the new
edition:--"The work was printed from MSS. in the possession of Dr.
Carey, and it was carried through the press when he was labouring
under the debility of great age...The advanced age of Dr. Carey did
not admit of any longer delay."

His first public attempt at agricultural reform was made in the
paper which he contributed to the Transactions of the Bengal Asiatic
Society, and which appeared in 1811 in the tenth volume of the
Asiatic Researches. In the space of an ordinary Quarterly Review
article he describes the "State of Agriculture in the District of
Dinapoor," and urges improvements such as only the officials,
settlers, and Government could begin. The soils, the "extremely
poor" people, their "proportionally simple and wretched farming
utensils," the cattle, the primitive irrigation alluded to in
Deuteronomy as "watering with the foot," and the modes of ploughing
and reaping, are rapidly sketched and illustrated by lithographed
figures drawn to scale. In greater detail the principal crops are
treated. The staple crop of rice in its many varieties and harvests
at different seasons is lucidly brought before the Government, in