saenaeemmaannens ame 
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Part I1.—Flora of cies. the Falkland Islands, &e, Date of 
publication, 1845-1847; pp. 366; Species 1,000; Plates 120; 
Species figured 220. 
The Cryptogamic portions of these parts were also issued 
separtely. 
1853. Vol. 1, pp. 355 ; Species (Pheenog .) 730 ; es 70 ; Ase cies 
ose 83. Vol. a pp. 378 ; Species (Cryptoz.) ‘L C37 Plates 60 ; 
Vol. L at 550 (with Introd. Kee, &C.) ; pe! 2D i ne 758 ; 
Plates 100; Species figured 138. Vol. 2, on 422; Species 
Se neont. and Acot) 1445; Plates 100; Species figured 274. 
volumes, containing about 3,000 species in all; and 
530 plates, ne. 1, > species. 
as further 
“The oak aul by the A reustry to aid in the publication 
of the Botany ofthe Antarctic Voyage was £1,000, to be expended 
solely in the drawing and li thoghioking: of 500 quarto coloured 
plates. These, with ‘the descriptive matter, nave been given by 
the Author free of all cost, and of all share in the proceeds of the 
serie car to the Publisher, who has thus been enabled to bring 
t the series at a very much more moderate price than any 
similat work,” 
The Government of Tasmania awarded Sir Joseph Hooker a 
grant of £350 in respect of the Flora of that Colony, ae = of 
New coos the same sum in respect of the similar serv 
noble series of volumes was also in quarto, and hanes 
sitar for the Library, were not adapted for practical use, 
Sir William Hooker, who became Director of Kew in 1841, = 
tha it ihe series should be ntinued in a less expensive way, 
“in 8vo., without plates, scientific yet intelligible to any man of 
ordinary tra: 
StR WILLIAM HOOKER TO COLONIAL OFFICE. 
Royal Sai Kew. 
TE as (ith, ASR. 
SIR, fined 
Bot is not now what it once was, a science confine 
to the learn and of little or no benefit to the people at large. 
In the presen t day, as is well known, it has a practical wee Ba 
numerous trades and professions; and a familiarity, to i pia 
extent, is of eer consequence. Our Colonists and page 
in our ae repeatedly and anxiously inquire, but oe t hy 
what book they can consult on the countries they are a ‘2 ; 
visit? To He honour of the Colonial Office, ery ae a, a 
“Flora”? that ever appeared, namely, that of ‘ Britis enitt . 
America,” was published in 1840 (by myself), pom — “Colonic! 
(and = the Gresuse of) “the Secretary of 8 sa 
ffai This was the result of several joursied te ele 
eset to eagles the more northern and western eth O40 
by Franklin, &c., &c., and appeared in 2 volumes 4to., wi 
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