TO 
JOHN GILBERT BAKER, ESQ, F.RS., F.LS, 
FIRST ASSISTANT IN THE HERBARIUM OF THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, 
My prar Baxrr, 
I have great pleasure in dedicating to you a 
volume of the Botantcat Magazine, a work which has for 
several years past profited by contributions from your pen. 
I do this the more gladly, because it gives me the oppor- 
tunity of placing on record my sense of the zeal and efficiency 
with which you have for so many years conducted your duties 
in the institution to which we both are attached, and of the 
cordiality with which you have not only officially aided 
visitors during their researches in the Herbarium, but un- 
officially placed at their disposal your great stores of botanical 
knowledge. 
Believe me, 
Most sincerely yours, 
JOS. D. HOOKER. 
Royat Garpens, Kew, 
Dee. 1st, 1880. 
