THE ILLUSTRATIONS, 
‘AF the coloured illustrations which 
accompany the descriptions, in 
Part IV., of British Woodland 
Trees, the Author desires to say 
that they have been produced 
from photographs of leaves that 
he has collected, chiefly—by the courtesy 
of the authorities—at Kew Gardens, which 
contain the finest of cultivated collections 
of British Forest Trees. The leaves, arranged in 
eight plates, were reduced in the resulting photo- 
graphs to half the size of the specimens. The 
Author was especially desirous that these repre- 
sentations should be absolutely true to Nature; 
and that particular care should be taken to obtain 
