TO 
THOMAS HANBURY, ESQ., F.L.S. 
Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, Ventimiglia. 
My pear Hansvry, 
It is no less a duty than a pleasure to offer to you 
the dedication of a Volume of the BoranicaL Macazing, as 
a tribute to the value of your services to Scientific Horti- 
culture, in creating a garden of Exotic plants at Mentone, 
which, in point of richness and interest, has no rival amongst 
the private collections of living plants in the world: and 
in. munificently founding the “Istituto Botanico Hanbury” 
in the Botanical Gardens of the University of Genoa, the 
early years of which are already so full of promise for the 
future of Scientific Botany in Europe. 
Believe me, 
Dear Mr. Hanbury, 
Sincerely yours, 
J. D. HOOKER. 
