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APPENDIX. 



Note in explanation of the resemblance between the ' types 

 of distribution'' and the ^floras'' of Professor Edward 

 Forbes. 



In accordance with the intention intimated on page 55 

 of the present volume, the Author now proceeds to make 

 some comments upon the similitude between his own 

 'types of distribution,' explained on pages 43 — 54, and 

 certain so-called ' floras,' announced by Mr. Forbes for the 

 basis of his hypothesis concerning the origin and migra- 

 tion of British plants. If, while so doing, he cannot avoid 

 giving the matter an aspect unpleasant and unfavourable 

 to Mr. Forbes, the latter must remember that his own 

 neglect of the courtesy and justice usually shown to the 

 rights of priority, among the cultivators of science, is the 

 cause to which any such disagreeable results may be 

 traced back. 



The earlier pages of this volume, as above referred to, 

 explain a mode of grouping plants, founded upon certain 

 leading peculiarities of their distribution with reference to 

 the southern or northern, the eastern or western, and the 

 mountainous parts of the island. That mode of grou]Mng 



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