Jebkaticn. 



JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, D.C.L., M.D., F.E.S., &c. 



DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 



Dbae De, Hooker : 



I know that it is to you that I am mainly indebted for 

 the opportunity of making the observations contained in the 

 following pages, as well as for the pleasure I have derived from 

 the increased scope of my Natural History studies which my 

 voyage has afforded me. And although the tenor of those 

 observations and studies has been in the main zoological rather 

 than botanical, I will not permit that circumstance to deprive 

 me of the gratification of dedicating the results to one who so 

 kindly and readily aided me with his influence and advice. 



I am, dear Dr. Hooker, 



Sincerely yours, 

 CUTHBEET COLLINGWOOD. 



Greenwich, 



March, 1868. 



