ADVERTISEMENT. 



PROFESSOR SCHLEIDEN, the Author of these Lectures, 

 is one of the most distinguished Botanists of the present 

 day, and he has added to the obligations which his brother 

 Botanists are under to him, by presenting their favourite 

 Science in such an attractive form to the general Public. 



At the commencement of my pleasant task of preparing 

 them for the English reader, I thought of adding a few 

 notes, especially to those passages relating to certain views 

 which are not universally received ; but further consideration 

 induced me to confine myself to a simple translation, since, 

 while foot-notes would have disturbed the integrity of the 

 plan of the Work, had they been placed in an Appendix, 

 probably they would not have been much read. 



There is an especial difficulty in rendering works like the 

 present into a different language, since style must be 

 attended to as well as faithfulness to the literal meaning. 

 The accumulation of adjectives in descriptive portions is 

 often very embarrassing ; should some of these be found 

 rather un-English, I must beg for the indulgence of the 

 reader, on the plea of an earnest endeavour not to lose any 

 of the peculiar character of the Original. 



THE TRANSLATOR. 



LONDON, MAY, 1848. 



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