INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 



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his own manuscr 



be the great ultimatum 



pliil 



For such a task he had no 



common 



paramount im 



long delayed, considering the present state of the science,) not 

 only as being absolutely necessary to ensure further sound 

 progress, but as the only means of checking that hasty publi- 



perfect 



great confusion 



Herbarium 



t of the indefatigable Jacque- 

 mont, whose premature death deprived botany of an ardent 

 and enlightened votary, whose labours would have done much 

 to advance the science. M. Jacquemont's collections were 

 made partly in the Gangetic plain, but mainly in the north- 

 west Himalaya, a great part of which was first explored by 

 him. He entered the mountains at Massuri, and explored 



mur 



and 



Returning thence to the 



western 



Punjab, and travelled by Jelam and Bhimbar to Kashmir. In 

 this (at that time) unexplored province of the Him alaya he 

 spent a whole summer, and accumulated rich collections. 

 Leaving the mountains, he travelled through Delhi, Ajmir, 

 and Nimach, across Malwah to Bombay, whence he went to 

 Piinah. on the eastern slone of the range of the Ghats, and 



ed under repeated attacks of liver-complaint, 

 hardship and reckless exposure in the pursuit 



ourite 



journals of Jacquemont, which 



tanical 



bear ample testimony to his great bo- 

 He was evidently deeply impressed witli 



importance of careful observations in geographical b« 

 and noted with the utmost care the localities of his i 

 Had he lived to work out the result of his own labour 



