PREFACE TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 
Iw consequence of what has been mentioned in the Advertise< 
ment prefixed to the First Volume of this work, as well as in an Ar 
- ticle in the Journal of the Asiatic Society for April 1832, entitled 
“Review of Indian Botany,” page 138, the inference will proba- 
byt be — that the Public have much to regret, in its being 
‘esented to the world without Dr. Wallich’s additions. To deny 
this j is not The Famer of the writer of this Preface, but to offer 
some further explanation of the reasons which led to it. In the 
latter end of 1830, when the Publishers determined, with the as- 
sistance of the Author’s greatly esteemed friend, the Reverend Dr. 
Carey, to complete the Publication of the “ Frora Inpica,” up- 
wards of ten years had elapsed since the First Volume of the old 
_ Edition had appeared; during which interval one other Volume 
only was added to it. At this period (the conclusion of 1830) 
Dr. Wallich was in England, and the Publishers had no means of 
judging when he purposed returning to India, or whether he in- 
tended to remain altogether in Europe. Calls for the completion 
of the Work had from time to time been made in the Journals and — 
Periodicals of the day, and the obligation they were under not to al- 
_ low a Work, the result of much study and labour, to remain longer 
< dormant, had continued undischarged too long. Further delay 
was out of the question. Two modes of Publication now suggest 
ed themselves ; 3—one, to complete the remaining Volumes, making 
use of Dr. Wallich’s manuscript Notes and Additions ; the other, to 
publish them without. Both were set aside: the first was palpably 
improper, circumstances not admitting of Dr. Wallich’s acquies-. 
-_eence being previously sought : the second would have given to the 
‘World a confused and mutilated work. In lieu it was determined, — 
nough a much additional ore, to REPRINT the two 
