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‘tent, and which will form a monument to his memory more lasting 
‘than the most pompous inscription engraved on tablets of brass ; but | 
of which he would have been completely and unjustly de filed: had 
“the work been suffered to remain unpublisiied. “This, was likewise, 
strengthened by his desire to promote the interests of a science to 
which he has been attached from the earliest period of his life, and 
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which must have suffered an almost irreparable loss had the labors of - 
» Dr, RS been suffered to die with him. git 
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of ihe Honorable Cope 5 Batu’ c Garden 
ed in numbering. among liis most intimate friends, and whose ability 
and indefatigable zeal in conducting that Institution are so well 
Tas che not ouly consented to assist in superinteuding this work 
of his esteemed predecessor and friend, as it passed through the 
press ; but in the most generous manner promised to insert tüereiu, 
those numerous plants which have since been communicated to hiin 
from all parts of Asia, and particularly from Nepala, a country the 
' productions of which are as yet scarcely known to the European 
3 world. This will prove such an addition to the original work ofthe 
late D m Roxburgh, while it is fully congenial with its nature, that it 
“cannot. but form a most desirable acquisition to every lover of this 
pleasing iiis )oth. " 
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Ia thus pablishing jns work of "^ii: deceased friend, the Editor 
. feels assured that no one will impute to him motives of a mercenary 
nature, who considers the expense and labor of printing a work, of 
this nature, the limited sale it must necessarily have, and the li:tle 
probability there is of a second edition of it being called. for either in 
. Tudia or Europe : as in every new systematic work on general botany , 
or new editions of — ones, all the Pu describit parti- 
