By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday asked for help from the French envoy in India to get a digitised copy of a manuscript on plants in Orissa written by a Frenchman in 1725.
“I have been told that the oldest document based on a scientific survey of plants in Orissa was written in the year 1725 by a Frenchman called Nikolas L. Empereur,” said the letter to French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont.
The document is currently available at the Natural History Museum in Paris.
“I wonder whether we could get a digitized copy of this manuscript. Any expenses incurred in this regards will be borne by us,” Ramesh said in the letter, a copy of which is with IANS.
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