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To find a publisher for the book was a matter, Sir William 

 confesses, to Dawson Tm-ner, of very great difficulty. But at 

 last a young publisher in King William Street, named Lovell 

 Keeve, undertook it on condition of receiving all the material 

 of drawings, plates, and text without further payment, and 

 that not one copy should be given away to a person likely to 

 buy it. 



Coupled with this news of the book Sir William gave another 

 piece of news scarcely less interesting to Dawson Turner. On 

 the following day, April 2, 1844, Joseph was to be received 

 into the Linnean Society, to which he had been elected during his 

 absence from England. His grandfather had been a member 

 since 1797. 



A fortnight later : ' Joseph is very hard at work on his 

 Flora and three or four plates are prepared. But I do not 

 think he is yet aware of the great labour in store for him — eight 

 plates a month and two sheets of letterpress.' No one was 

 more aware of this than Sir William, with his long experience 

 of botanical books and journals ; and Dawson Turner, to whom 

 he submitted the proofs for notes and suggestions, knew some- 

 thing of it also. 



The work was to appear in three parts : the first, or Antarctic 

 portion, to be dedicated to Boss ; the second (Flora of New 

 Zealand) to Prince Albert, and the third (Flora of Van Diemen's 

 Land) either to Sir Kobert Peel or to Bobert Brown. Sir 

 William asked Dawson Turner to draw up the dedication to 

 Boss. The publication of the first instalment early in June 

 calls forth congratulations from Mr. Lyell of Kinnordy on 

 Joseph's debut as an author. 



At the same time he furnished Boss with various material 

 for his account of the Antarctic Voyage. On the one hand 

 were short botanical sketches of such places as Boss desired, 

 with the full identifications of plants now possible. Thus * the 

 liliaceous plant' mentioned in his first account of the Auckland 

 and Campbell Islands (he trounces the French botanists for 

 calling it a Veratrum in the account of D'Urville's voyage) is 

 now individualised as Chrysohactron Rossii. These islands he 

 found to be * the richest spots we visited anywhere for new 



