To 
MAJOR DAVID PRAIN, MB, F.RSE, F.LS. 
(Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta.) 
My DEAR PRAIN, 
Your official position as head of the greatest Botanical 
establishment of the British Empire beyond the seas, might alone 
prompt me to offer to you the dedication of a volume of the 
Botanical Magazine; but to this I must add the great value of 
your botanical works, whether purely scientific or economic, your 
exertions in contributing to the Royal Gardens and Herbarium of 
Kew, and to the Botanical Magazine, and last, if not least, our 
cordial friendship. 
Believe me, 
Very sincerely yours, 
Jos. D. HOOKER. 
Tue Camp, SUNNINGDALE, 
December 1st, 1900. 
