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privilege to see them. Without such an inspection, it would 
be difficult to form an idea of their extent and value: they 
reflect the highest credit on the officers of the Expedition. 
No small part of these collections is constituted by the Her- 
barium; and so numerous are the species, and such is 
deemed their interest to the cause of science, that upon 
a representation being made to Sir Robert Peel by the Lords 
of the Admiralty, supported by a powerful recommendation 
from Mr. Brown and Dr. Buckland, that distinguished indi- 
vidual caused a grant to be made from the Treasury in aid of 
the publication of such portions of the Herbarium as are 
considered the most valuable; and the Botanist of the Expe- 
dition, Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, is charged by the Admi- 
ralty with the superintendence and preparation of the work. 
Messrs. Reeve, Brothers, Lithographers in Natural History, 
and Publishers, King William Street, London, authors of 
a very beautiful work on Shells, undertake the publication, 
which is to appear in monthly parts till the whole is com- 
pleted in 5 vols. royal quarto, with 500 beautifully executed 
lithographic plates of new or imperfectly known species; co- 
loured and plain. The liberal assistance of government 
enables the uncoloured copies to be offered at the very low 
Cost of 5s. each part, (8 plates and 2 sheets of closely printed 
letter-press) ; and even the illuminated copies (coloured from 
wings or notes made on the spot), at the scarcely less 
moderate sum of 8s. each number. : 
The Floras of many of the continents and islands visited 
are too well known to require that they should be even 
noticed here. It has been thought better to render those of 
the less explored regions as perfect as the present know- 
ledge of their Botany will allow :—and to divide the publica- 
tion into three separate and distinct portions, each complete 
In itself; as follows : 
Part I. FLORA ANTARCTICA. — 
This is intended to embrace a complete history of the 
Vegetation of the Antarctic Regions, namely, such lands as 
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