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The significant articles by British doctors and military men serving in India include two on the sources of the Ganges River, one of which, Capt. F.V. Raper's Narrative of a Survey for the purpose of discovering the Sources of the Ganges, is illustrated with the folding map; the hand-colored plates are of "several of the Monandrous Plants of India" illustrating an article by W. Roxburgh, M.D. Other articles include A Catalogue of the Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs, with their names in the Hindustani and Sanscrit languages by John Fleming, M.D.; a Sketch of the Sikhs by Brig. Gen. Malcolm, etc. Formerly in the Charles Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion, with old rubberstamps to title-page and following leaf, bookplate, evidence of removed spine label and rear endpaper slip.