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to the Southern Islands." I must also state my obligations to Dr. Guppy's book on 

 " Plant-dispersal in the Pacific," which, though dealing with a difiierent area, is 

 replete with valuable and novel facts. Finally, I desire to express my high apprecia- 

 tion of Dr. Schenck's memoir (one of the publications of the " Deutschen Tief See 

 Expedition ") dealing with the plant-geography of the subantarctic islands, and 

 which includes Schimper's researches on the subject, upon which I have so largely 

 drawn. More especially do I mention this, on account of my conviction that the 

 views expressed therein are the most philosophic, and the most in accordance with 

 the known facts, of any recent researches into the subject. 



