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editorial management of the entire volume. And here I will take 

 occasion to remark, that although ' The Phytologist ' is published at 

 my cost, and under my immediate control ; and although I am in 

 every respect responsible for anonymous articles ; yet 1 have no claim 

 whatever to the merit of such articles, since they have generally ema- 

 nated from the pen of Mr. Luxford, whose name now stands in the 

 title-page as the avowed editor. 



It only remains for me to offer my best thanks to every sub- 

 scriber and contributor, to all who promoted the welfare of my under- 

 taking ; but more especially to Mr. Luxford for his editorial labours, 

 and to Mr. Dennes, Secretary to the Botanical Society of London, 

 for the unremitting kindness and regularity with which he has fur- 

 nished such able Reports of its proceedings. 



EDWARD NEWMAN. 



9, Devonshire St., Bishopsgate, 

 November 20, 1844. 



