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47-2 NOTE ON THE FLORAS OF MR. FORBES. 



that work, and of other volumes connected therewith, by 

 the same author, the close labour of many months (or, 

 rather, of years) would have been required for collecting 

 and comparing the necessary thousands upon thousands of 

 facts in detail, and working them out to any such genera- 

 lized summaries as those which are announced in the re- 

 ports of Mr, Forbes's communication to the Association ; 

 and which are not announced as the summaries of any 

 other individual than himself. 



Botany, be it remembered, afforded to the Zoologist the 

 whole and sole basis of his earlier paper, as reported from 

 Cambridge. There existed no zoological work which 

 could have supplied any similar basis. But there did 

 exist one such botanical work, and Mr. Forbes temporarily 

 possessed himself of that work shortly before his paper 

 was read. 



Can there remain a doubt as to the reasons wherefore 

 the zoologist first founded his hypothesis on the distribu- 

 tion of plants, instead of basing it upon that of animals ? 

 — oi", as to the source whence a ready-made foundation 

 for his paper was derived ? 



If not, then why did Mr. Forbes's own report of his own 

 paper, and his subsequent lecture in London, on the same 

 subject, convey a different idea to his readers and audi- 

 ence, and lead them to attribute the whole botanical merit 

 (if any there be) to Mr. Forbes himself? 



END OF VOLUME I. 



