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It is obvious that in carrying out any scheme for a botanical 
survey of the Empire based on material preserved at Kew, the 
the least important, of preparing and coordinating that material. 
For the literary “A sk of description and preparing successive 
works for the press, it has had largely to rely on the assistance of 
outside and independent botanists. To these it, however, has 
necessarily to prescribe adhesion to a uniform lan and a eee 
no 
After this pte elt ate explanation, it remains to give briefly 
the official history of the ieee: undertakings which have so far 
been comprised in the whole enterprise. 
Flora Boreali-Americana. 
This was the first of the Colonial Floras. It appears to have 
been published “ under the ae and at the expense of the 
Secretary of State for Colonial Affai It was the work of Sir 
William Hooker, who was at the eine Bat s Professor of Botany 
in the University of Glasgow. It was illustrated with 138 plates, 
and on that account, as was nies with scientific works o 
this ealiod. was issued in quarto form, It appeared in parts at 
intervals from 1829-40. he full title is given as containing 
information of interest :— 
I oreali-Americana; or, the Botany of the Northern 
ne of British America : Compiled Bide ld froin the Plants 
collected by Dr. Richardson and Mr. Drummond on the late 
ade ati Expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John 
Frankli é To which are added (by permission of the 
fai ooous Society ‘of London), Those of Mr. Douglas, from 
North-West America ; poe of other Naturalists. By William 
Jackson Hooker, LL.D., F.R.A. & L.S., — mber of the Imperial 
Academy Nature Saslencae Honorary Member of the Royal 
Irish Academy, etc., etc., and Regius Protcence of Botany in the 
University of Glasgow. . Illustrated by numerous Plates. Pub- 
lished under the authority of the Right Honourable the Secretary 
of State for Colonial Affairs. London; 1829-40. 2 vols., 4to.” 
Botany of the Antarctic Voyage. 
Dr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Hooker was attached in the 
Antarctic expedition of the ee and ‘phanbece ender the command 
of on por: Ross, in the years 1839-4 assistant-surgeon of the 
and botanist to the axpeditlon: The Lords Commissioners 
of Co Admiralty entrusted him in 1843 with the publication of 
the results. 
The following statement of how this was Abe eemmeitess is taken 
from the preface to the Flora of Tasmania : 
I. Flora Antarctica. 
Part I.—Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell’s Islands. Date 
7 publication, 1843-1845 ; pp. 208; Species 370; Plates 80 (and 
Map); Species figured 150, 
