TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 



SIR MOtWTSTUART ELPHINSTONE GRANT DUFF, 



G.C.S.I., CLE., F.E.S. and L.S., &c, 

 President of the Royal Geographical Society. 



My bear Grant Duff, — 



Let me claim the privilege of dedicating to you 

 the 117th Volume of the Botanical Magazine, as a slight 

 acknowledgment of the valuable services which you ren- 

 dered to Botany and to Horticulture when Under-Secretary 

 of State, first for India and then for the Colonies, and 

 latterly when Governor of the Madras Presidency; to 

 which I would add, in memory of our long friendship, and 

 of our delightful rambles at home and abroad, in pursuit 

 of our favourite science. 



Believe me, 



Most sincerely yours, 



JOS. D. HOOKER, 

 The Camp, Sunningdale, 

 December 1st, 1891. 



