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assistance, and placed at its disposal his valuable and extensive 
manuseript collections and notes *. 
The Committee has further engaged the services of Mr. Hemsley, 
A.L.8., to cooperate in drawing up the Report, and he has pre- 
pared a specimen dealing with the Ranunculacee to its entire 
satisfaction. 
The Committee now finds itself in a position to press on the 
work with considerable despatch, and feels confident that, by 
affording for the first time a comprehensive view of the vege- 
tation of one of the most interesting of existing botanical regions, 
it will supply invaluable aid for further research, as well to the 
student of physiography, as to travellers, diplomatic agents and 
missionaries abroad. 
The Committee is anxious that the printing should proceed 
pari passu with the preparation of the Report, and would deem 
it an advantage that it should be issued to the publie under the 
auspices of the Linnean Society. 
l, therefore, on behalf of the Committee, beg to offer the Report 
to the Couneil of the Linnean Society on the following con- 
ditions :— 
l. The Committee to have placed at its disposal an entire 
volume of the botanical series of the Journal of the Society. 
2. The Committee to pay the entire cost of setting the Report 
in type, and of correcting the press. 
3. The Committee to be at liberty to print off at its own cost 
150 copies to remain at its disposal. 
4. The Linnean Society to bear the cost of press-work for 
copies issued to Fellows, and for stock for sale by the Society. 
9. Plates illustrating species of exceptional interest may be 
included in the Report, at the discretion of the Committee, on the 
same terms as those above stated with regard to the letterpress T. 
The Committee suggests that the Report may be issued in 
parts to the Fellows. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
(Signed) Joun Barr. 
The President of the Linnean Society. 
* [Owing to unforeseen private engagements, he was unable to take any 
further active part in the preparation of the * Enumeration.” ] 
t [The expense of the map and drawing of the first three platesin Volume 23 
was defrayed by Mr. Forbes, afterwards the entire cost of the plates was borne 
by the Linnean Society. | 
