GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA 



Robert Bell, M.D., D.Sc. (Cantab.), LL.D., F.R.S., LS.O. 

 Acting Deputy Head and Director 



Ottawa, November 14, 1905 



Dear Mrs. Henshaw : When you first told me of your intention 

 to write a popular mountain flora, I assured you that such a work 

 would not only serve a splendid purpose in attracting attention to 

 our grand Canadian mountains, but that until the tourist had in his 

 hands some such book that would enable him to identify the many 

 flowers that grow there in profusion he must feel lost among the 

 unnamed beauties which would surround him. It was the one book 

 needed. 



That the work should have been done as you have done it is more 

 than I could have hoped. The beauty of the photographs, the abso- 

 lute correctness of the grouping of the flowers, the concise and yet 

 complete descriptions, make it easy for even the visitor of a day to 

 identify all the plants he is hkely to see. 



Your choice of English names when such had not before been 

 given to our alpine flowers is excellent. They are themselves often 

 sufficiently descriptive to enable one to identify the species. I am 

 glad to note, too, that the scientific names you have used are strictly 

 in accordance with our Canadian nomenclature as indorsed by the 

 Canadian Dominion Government Botanists. 



Yours sincerely. 



