TO 



C. B. CLARKE. Esq., M.A., F.R.&, F.LS. 



My dear Clarke, 



By dedicating to you the Hundred and Fourteenth 

 "Volume of the Botanical Magazine, I avail myself of a long- 

 desired opportunity of placing on record the high estimation in 

 which your services to Botanical Science are held, — services 

 emphasized by your arduous journeys for botanical explo- 

 ration in all parts of India, and by your extensive and 

 valuable publications on the vegetation of our Indian 

 possessions. 



I further take this opportunity of gratefully acknow- 

 ledging the important aid you have been to me in the 

 preparation of "The Flora of British India/' by placing 

 unreservedly at my disposal your immense Indian Herbarium 

 and invaluable accompanying observations on the plants it 

 contains, and by contributing to that work a series of care- 

 fully elaborated Natural Orders, which has both materially 

 lightened my labours and facilitated the researches of our 

 fellow-botanists in India. 



Believe me, with great regard, 



Faithfully yours, 



JOS. D. HOOKER. 



Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 December 1st, 1888. 



