Rumphius: An Annotated Selection of His Botanical and OtherWritings

FAIN: RP-*0727-81

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003-9242)
Richard Lozier (Project Director: November 1980 to October 1990)

To support publication of the first English translation of selected descriptions of tropical flora, shellfish, minerals, and precious stones found in the Dutch East Indies by the 17th-century Dutch botanist Rumphius. Part of the Library of the Indies series, the work also describes native use of plants.