page_title: George Watt (botanist)
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: George Watt (botanist) / Publications
caption_attribution_description: A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India. Volume I. Title page.
context_page_description: Sir George Watt CIE FLS was a Scottish physician and botanist who worked in India as "Reporter" on economic botany and during the course of his career in India he compiled a major multivolume work, The Dictionary of Economic Products of India, the last volume of which was published in 1893. An abridged edition of his work was also published as the single volume Commercial Products of India in 1908. He is honoured in the binomials of several plants named after him.
context_section_description: Watt's first work on the catalogue of the exhibits at the Calcutta International Exhibition was published in 1883 and consisted of four volumes with seven parts in them. The exhibits themselves had been organized by Trailokhya Nath Mukharji, a civil servant who later served as a curator of the economic section at the Indian Museum. He was assisted by botanists as well as Indian physicians with a knowledge of medicinal plants including Dr Moodeen Sheriff of Madras, Kanny Lall Dey of Calcutta and Dr Udoy Chand Dutt of Serampore.
  Volume I. which included:
  Part I. Gums and Resins.
  Part II. Dyes, Tans, and Mordants.
  Part III. Fibers and Fibre-yielding plants.
  Part IV. Oils and Oil seeds, Perfumery, and Soaps. Index.
  Part V. Medicinal Products
  Part VI. Foods, Food-stuffs, and Fodders
  Part VII. Timbers
  This was developed further into Watt's Dictionary of the Economic Products of India published from 1889 to 1893 and projected to be in six volumes but it grew larger and the additions were accommodated by breaking up the last volume into four parts. It is considered by many as the greatest compilation of the commercial plants (and natural products) of India. Although there were similar subsequent works like the Wealth of India series, Watt's work continues to be a major source for research. Watt's compilation included descriptions of other natural products such as silk, oysters and minerals. 
  Volume I. Abaca to Buxus (1889)
  Volume II. Cabbage to Cyperus (1890)
  Volume III. Dacrydium to Gordonia (1890)
  Volume IV. Gossypium to Linociera (1890)
  Volume V. Linum to Oyster (1891)
  Volume VI. Part 1. Pachyrhizus to Rye (1892)
  Volume VI. Part 2. Sabadilla to Silica (1893)
  Volume VI. Part 3. Silk to Tea (1893)
  Volume VI. Part 4. Tectona to Zygophillum and Index (1893)
  Watt's assistant I.H. Burkill, who moved to the Straits Settlement published A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula in two volumes in 1935. It was broadly modelled on the lines of Watt's work.
  Watt made a study of tea cultivation in Assam and Kangra and published a report of the pests and diseases affecting it in 1898.
caption: Title page of the first volume
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