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the home and colonial trade circulars, I^i-latnc papers, and 

 scientific periodicals of different countries Tin- harassing 



duties appertaining to the p<-ition of City editor of a daily 

 paper, coupled with numerous other literary engagements, have 

 a Horded me insufficient time to do full justice to the work 

 \\hilc passing through the press; and several literal typo- 

 graphical errors in the botanical names have, I find, escaped 

 inv attention in the revision of the sheets. I have, how< ver, 

 thought it scarcely necessary to m;ke a list of errata for these. 

 From want of leisure, to reduce all the weights and measure- 

 named in the body of the work into English, I have given their 

 relative, value in the Index. I have taken considerable pains 

 to make the Index most full and complete, for it has always 

 appeared to me, that in works embracing a great variety of 

 subjects, facility of reference is of paramount importance. 



Some discrepancy may here and there be found between 

 the figures quoted from Parliamentary returns and those 

 derixed from private trade circulars; but the statistics are 

 accurate enough for approximate calculations. 



Whilst the work lias been passing through the press, 

 erenJ important modifications and alterations have been 

 made in our Tariff'. 



I have throughout found rcat difficulty in obtaining 

 Commercial information from the \arious Colonial brokers 

 and importers of the City, who, with but feu exceptions, 



