vin CHEMISTRY OF THE PROTEIDS 



My first book I dedicated to a botanist who aroused my interest 

 in histological research and taught me patience ; and this my second 

 book I also dedicate to a botanist, namely, to my father, who, trained 

 at Kew, was appointed in November 1859 Government-Botanist to the 

 Niger Expedition, and who, according to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 

 was the most successful of all botanical explorers of western tropical 

 Africa. During his arduous and perilous expeditions on the 

 Cameroons, Fernando Po, and St. Thomas Mountains, my father 

 made the first contributions regarding the botanical geography of 

 these regions in 1860-1863. Subsequently he entered the services of 

 the Government of India in the Forest Department; becoming the 

 first forest officer appointed in British Sikkim and Assam, he 

 administered with unremitting care the Forest Department in the 

 latter province for more than twenty-one years. 



