H. M. Ships Erebus and Terror. 519 



the circumstances in which he was placed, for preparing and 

 preserving them. The alacrity which he has displayed in 

 placing his discoveries before the public, is quite without 

 parallel in the annals of British voyages of discovery, not 

 one year having elapsed after the return of the expedition 

 before he had all his materials put into order, and several 

 numbers of the work published. Indeed, we believe, that 

 with the exception of our first Botanist, Mr. Brown, Dr. 

 Hooker is the only Botanist attached to Government voy- 

 ages of discovery, who has undertaken to publish the result 

 of his own labours while abroad. Nor is the " Flora Antar- 

 tica" — which is to consist of twenty monthly parts, each part 

 containing eight plates — to be the only w r ork he purposes 

 publishing in connection with the voyage ; as he announces, 

 besides, a " Florae Novae Zelandiae," to be illustrated with one 

 hundred and forty plates, and a " Flora Tasmanica," which 

 will contain two hundred plates. 



Besides the collections which the author himself accumu- 

 lated, these works will contain the " still unpublished Her- 

 baria formed by Sir Joseph Banks, Forster, Solander, and 

 Menzies, all deposited in the British Museum, and placed at 

 the author's disposal by Mr. Brown, as are also the plants of 

 Capt. Fitzroy's voyage, by Mr. Darwin and Professor Hens- 

 low." In addition to these, the rich materials contained in 

 the Herbarium of the author's father, Sir William Hooker 

 — one of the largest, if not the largest, private one in 

 Europe — will enable him to make most important additions 

 to the extra tropical Flora of the Southern Hemisphere. 



The manner in which the " Flora Antartica," is got up, is 

 highly creditable to all parties connected with it. It is of 

 royal quarto size, and beautifully printed by Reeve Brothers, 

 the well known Conchologists, and Natural History Lithogra- 

 phers. The drawings are by Fitch, an artist who has been 

 many years in the employ of Sir William Hooker, the illus- 

 tration of whose works has given him a reputation, second to 



