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small collection of insects, Mr. Waterhouse re- 

 marks that of those which were ticketed with their 

 locality, not one was common to any two of the 

 islands. 



If we now turn to the Flora, we shall find the 

 aboriginal plants of the different islands wonder- 

 fully different. I give all the following results on 

 the high authority of my friend Dr. J. Hooker. I 

 may premise that I indiscriminately collected ev- 

 erything in flower on the different islands, and for- 

 tunately kept ray collections separate. Too much 

 confidence, h.^wever, must not be placed in the 

 proportional results, as the small collections brought 

 home by some other naturalists, though in some 

 respects confirming the results, plainly show that 

 much remains to be done in the botany of this 

 group : the Leguminosae, moreover, have as yet 

 been only approximately worked out : 



* Or 29, if the probably imported plants be subtracted. 



Hence we have the truly wonderful fact, that 

 in James Island, of the thirty-eight Galapageian 

 plants, or those found in no other part of the world, 

 thirty are exclusively confined to this one island ; 

 and in Albemarle Island, of the twenty-six abori- 

 ginal Galapageian plants, twenty-two are confined 

 to this one island, that is, only four are at present 

 known to grow in the other islands of the archipel- 

 ago ; and so on, as shown in the above table, with 

 the plants from Chatham and Charles Islands. This 

 fact will, perhaps, be rendered even more striking, 

 by giving a few illustrations : thus, Scalesia, a re- 

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