TO 



WILLIAM BOTTING HEMSLEY, F.E.S., F.L.S., 



Principal Assistant, Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kexc. 



My dear Hemsley, 



I have three reasons, each sufficient, for offering 

 to yon the dedication of a volume of the Botanical 

 Magazine; firstly, as a record of the interest you have 

 shown in this work, and an acknowledgment of the 

 valuable aid I have received from you in conducting it; 

 secondly, the amount and importance of your labours 

 in Systematic and Geographical Botany, as especially 

 evidenced by your great works on the Flora of Central 

 America, and on the Botany of the Challenger Expedition ; 

 and lastly, my wish that you should accept this dedication 

 as the tribute of a friend to a collaborator for upwards 

 of thirty years in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens. 



Believe me, with esteem and regard, 



Faithfully yours, 



J. D. HOOKER. 



The Camp, Sunmngdale. 

 Dec. 1st, 1898. 



