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the privilege of bringing into notice many novelties of great 

 interest derived from the researches of our friends and corres- 

 pondents in different quarters of the globe, from some coun- 

 tries of which, till now, the vegetable productions were 

 comparatively unknown to the man of science. We allude 

 particularly to the Fiji Islands, to Japan and China, to 

 Borneo, Tropical Africa, East and West, &c. &c. ; the results 

 of the labours of Brackenridge, Milne, Macgillivray, Harvey, 

 Seemann (Fiji) ; Wright, Wilford, Urquhart, Alcock, Hodg- 

 son (China and Japan) ; Low, Motley, Lobb (Borneo) ; 

 Vogel, Baikie and Barter, Kirk, in Livingstone's Expedition 

 (Tropical Africa), and others too numerous to mention, but 

 whose names stand recorded in these pages. Not a few we 

 trust will be found faithfully and unmistakeably exhibited in 

 our two Centuries ; and many, for which we have no space 

 here, will be received, and if possible figured in our " Species 

 Filicum,*" now in course of Publication. 



Royal, Gardens, Kew, 

 Mat, 1861. 



* "Speoibs Filicum ; being descriptions of the known Ferns, particularly of such as exist 

 in the Author's Herbarium, or are, with sufficient accuracy, described in works to which he 

 has had access ; accompanied with numerous figures, by Sir W. J. Hooker." Of this work 

 three volumes have appeared, with 210 plates. Vol. IV. is now in the press. 



