To 

 FEKDINAND MTJELLEK, Pn.D, M.D., F.R.S., &c., Ac., Ac. 



GOVERNMENT BOTANIST FOR THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. 



MY DEAR SIR, 



In presenting to the public my humble contribution to the Flora 

 of Australia, I feel deeply indebted to your kind consideration for permitting 

 me to dedicate the volume to you ; and more especially do I appreciate the 

 association of your name with my occasional papers, inasmuch as most of 

 them have been perused by you, and received your favourable notice. But 

 independently of the friendly sentiments you have manifested towards me, 

 and the invaluable assistance I have received from your correspondence for 

 the last eleven years, there are other considerations which induce me to bring 

 your name prominently forward on the present occasion. 



Since the days of the illustrious ROBERT BROWN, no botanist has devoted 

 himself more assiduously to the elucidation of Australian Botany than 

 yourself, and certainly none has more richly merited the title " PRINCE OF 

 AUSTRALIAN BOTANISTS," bestowed upon you by the eminent author of 

 Species Filicum. 



"When I contemplate the extensive information, profound research, and 

 philosophical discrimination, displayed in the voluminous works published 

 by you, by which you have gained an imperishable reputation, and contributed 

 materially to the advancement of science throughout the civilized world, I 

 may well feel honoured by the friendship of such a man as yourself, and pray 

 that you may long continue to adorn these colonies. 



