+---+---------------------------+-------------------------+ | | General Contributors, 1873. | |No.+---------------------------+-------------------------+ | | Subject. | Contributor. | +---+---------------------------+-------------------------+ | 1 | Ethnology | Dr. J. Wilson. | | 2 | Meteorology | Mr. C. Chambers, F.R.S. | | 3 | Geology | Mr. W. Blandford. | | 4 | Botany | Dr. W. Gray. | | 5 | Archæology | Dr. J. Burgess. | | 6 | Manufactures and Industry | Mr. G. W. Terry. | | 7 | Trade and Commerce | Mr. J. Gordon. | +---+---------------------------+-------------------------+ These arrangements resulted in the preparation of the following papers each of which on receipt was printed in pamphlet form: I. Ethnology; II. Meteorology; III. Geology; and IV. Botany. Of these papers it has not been deemed advisable to reprint Dr. J. Wilson's Paper on Castes as it was incomplete owing to Dr. Wilson's death in 1875. Reprinting was also unnecessary in the case of Mr. Blandford's Geology and of the late Mr. Chambers' Meteorology, as the contents of these pamphlets have been embodied in works specially devoted to the subject of those contributions. Dr. Burgess never prepared his article on the Archæology of the Presidency, but the materials supplied by the late Pandit Bhagvánlál Indraji prevented the evil effect which this failure would otherwise have caused. Dr. Bhagvánlál also ably supplied the deficiency caused by Dr. G. Bühler's failure to contribute an article on the Early History of Gujarát. The notices of the manufactures in the more important industrial centres to some extent supply the blank caused by the absence of Mr. Terry's contribution. Nothing came of the late Mr. Gordon's Account of the Trade of the Presidency. On the important subject of Botany besides Dr. W. Gray's original contribution, a valuable paper On Useful Trees and Plants was prepared by Dr. J. C. Lisboa, and a detailed account of Kaira field trees by the late Mr. G. H. D. Wilson of the Bombay Civil Service. These three papers together form a separate Botany Volume No. XXV.