TO 
GEORGE KING, ESQ. MB, F.LS,, 
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, CALCUTTA. 
My par Kine, 
Allow me the pleasure of dedicating this volume 
to you, as the worthy successor to a position held by three 
eminent Indian Botanists, Wallich, Thomson, and Anderson, 
who have successively accepted similar tributes from the pens 
of Editors of the Boranican Macaztne. Let me at the 
same time record my sense of the active interest which you 
have shown in the Royal Gardens of Kew, and in its offspring, 
the present work; and of the value of your contributions to 
it, to Horticulture, and to Botanical Science. 
I am, my dear King, 
Very sincerely yours, 
_ J. D. HOOKER. 
Royat Garpens, Kew, 
Dec. 1st, 1879. 
