High Altitude Western Himalayan Regional Centre, Solan

At present the center has 524 books on topics like floristics, plant taxonomy, ecology, phytogeography, cytology, genetics, environment, conservation including journals. Presently library has subscribed which includes Nelumbo, Journal of Indian Forestry and Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products. The centre will subscribe some national and international journals in the field of plant taxonomy, ecology, cytology, biodiversity conservation and climate change by March 2022. Some of the significant classic publications  like Van Rheede’s “Hortus Malabaricus”, Linnaeus’s “Species Plantarum” and “Mantissa Plantarum”, Roxburgh’s “Flora Indica” and “Plants of the coast of Coromandal” , Burman’s “Flora Indica”, Forsskal’s “Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica”, Wallich’s “Tentamen Florae Nepalensis” and “Plantae Asiaticae Rariores”, Wight’s “Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis”, “Prodromus Florae Penninsula Indiae Orientalis”, D. Don’s “Prodromus Flora Nepalensis”, Royle’s”lllustrations of Botany of Himalayan Mountains and Flora of Cashmere”, will also be available soon. A good collection of Hindi publications will also be subscribed under the Raj Bhasha Section of the centre. Presently centre has Vanaspati Vani journal Hindi published by Botanical Survey of India every year to promote the mother language Hindi.