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Curator of the Calcutta Herbarium, to whom I fear I have on many occasions 
given much trouble during the preparation and publication of the present 
volume. | 
I wish also to tender my warmest thanks to Sir Joseph Hooker, who has 
encouraged me to undertake the task of preparing a general work on the 
Asiatic Palms, and to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, his successor in the 
Directorship of the Botanical Museum of Kew, which has been my main 
source of information regarding the Palms that form the subject of the present 
study. I have likewise to express my thanks to Professor A. Engler for the 
loan of the sets of Calami and Daemonorops of the Berlin Herbarium, carefully 
arranged for me by that enthusiastic Phoenicologist Dr. Udo Dammer. The 
Berlin collection has proved very rich in new species, chiefly the fruits of the 
explorations of Dr. Merrill in the Philippines, of the German botanists in New 
Guinea, and specially of Dr. Warburg in various parts of Malesia and the 
adjacent countries. 
My cordial thanks are also due to Professor L. Radlkofer who has 
granted me the use of some of the type specimens of Martius, preserved in 
the Herbarium at Munich; to the late Professor Crepin and to Professor 
Durand for still other types of Martius that exist at Brussels; to the 
late Professor Suringar and to my lamented friend Dr. Boerlage of the Leiden 
Herbarium who selected, on my behalf and sent to Florence, an instructive 
specimen of every one of the species of Blume; to Dr. J. W. ©. Goethart, 
who has more recently sent me valuable contributions from the same s Rijks 
Herbarium of Leiden; to the late Professors Regel and Maximowicz, also 
lost friends; and to their successor Professor Fischer von Waldheim, for the 
loan of the entire collection of Palms belonging to the St. Petersburg 
Herbarium. 
I have also to thank the following friends for their kindness in supplying 
me with specimens of Palms of which I was in need:—Mr. Casimir de 
Candolle of Geneva; Dr. John Briquet, Conservator of the Herbarium 
Delessert; Mr. G. Beauverd, Conservator of the Herbarium Barbey-Boissier : 
Dr. A. Zahlbzuckner of the Vienna Herbarium; Professors E. Bureau 5 
Poisson and E. Bonnet of the “Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle” of Paris. 
To Mr. H. N. Ridley of the Botanic Garden of Singapore I am indebted 
for many of the Palms that grow in that island and in J ohore, regions which 
he has thoroughly explored, momenta 
But for the largest contribution to my work I am under a das | T NE 
io the Rev. Father.Scortechini, so untimely lost to Science, who most 
po pa m < bg the whole of his Malayan Palms, with his nores 
and drawings, altho this group of plants was ore of th d intended 
to eta M | | | ose he dM intended 
