APPENDIX. 
Photography 
OF THE 
New JIEBRIDES AND Povarry Jsvanps. 
THE notes of the following pages arose from various considerations. 
The writer wished to place connectedly on record his observations on 
a series of plants from some of the Pacific Islands, gathered, in ready 
response to his request, by a young friend during the past year. 
It seemed likely, also, that the narrative of this itineration, while it 
would, be scattered through the mission settlements, might animate 
Others, to add likewise to our store of phytographic material from these 
and other island groups, if a special chapter was devoted to the plants 
collected on this occasion. More particularly this might be expected 
if it could be shown that, even during the very transitory visit of places 
discovered fully a century ago, a search among the constituents of their 
rich vegetation had still brought to light a proportionately large share 
of plants, either imperfectly understood, or perhaps utterly unknown 
before ; and this from a collection necessarily limited. Furthermore, 
it appeared manifest that, by promoting a gradual scientific disclosure 
of the vegetation of any part of Polynesia, while civilization proceeds 
on its glorious path, new natural treasures would also become early 
scrutinised, the value of the indigenous resources of many a remote 
and lonely spot would be enhanced, and even intellectual enjoyment 
be increased in perhaps some distant solitudes. 
To these general reasons for appending the subsequent unpreten- 
sive Notes to Mr. Campbell’s work, one may be added, emanating 
from direct wishes of the writer. It is felt that the important works 
of the venerable Dr. Asa Gray and of the lamented Dr. Berthold See- 
mann, which form already a solid foundation for our knowledge of the 
