blatter rev ethelbert (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo. viii, [2], 110 pp. 31 colored and 37 monochrome plates. Original full dark green gilt-stamped cloth; worn, all corners showing, inner joint cracked. Good. Ethelbert Blatter was a Swiss Jesuit priest and pioneering botanist in British India. Author of five books and over sixty papers on the flora of the Indian subcontinent, he was Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier College, Bombay and vice-president of the Bombay Natural History Society. In 1932 he became the first recipient of the Johannes Bruehl Memorial Medal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.