TO 
CHARLES LYELL, Esq. F.L.S. 
OF KINNORDY IN SCOTLAND, AND BARTLEY LODGE, HANTS, IN ENGLAND. 
I 
Mv Dear Sir, 
I REJOICE in the opportunity that the present pu- 
blication affords of thus testifying the sentiments that I am bound to en~ 
tertain towards you. To your active and successful investigations I 
am indebted for some of the most important subjects that have appeared 
in my earlier botanical works ; and amongst the hours which I consider 
as the most agreeable of' my life, I reckon those which have been ren- 
dered so by your conversation and society. 
The distance which now separates us, has diminished the opportu- 
nity of these enjoyments. But the eoopectatims that ymi have allowed 
me to form, that your paternal seat may, ere long, become again the 
principal residence of your family, enable me to anticipate a closer re- 
newal of our former intercourse ; and I shall be truly happy when one 
of my oldest and most faithful friends will be an inhaUtant with myself 
of this my adopted country. 
I remain, yours. 
My Dear Sir, 
with the most sincere resrard 
Glasgow, ) 
Nov. 1. 1823./ 
and affection, 
W. J. HOOKER. 
