TO 
HENRY JOHN ELWES, ESQ., F.L.S., E.Z.S., ETC. 
OF PRESTON HOUSE, CIRENCESTER, 
Dear Mr. Elwes, 
Allow me to dedicate to you this volume of the Botanical 
Magazine, as a tribute to the zeal, intelligence, and success, with 
which you have pursued Horticultural Botany, and the liberal 
spirit in which you have laboured to advance its best interests 
as a traveller, a collector, and an author. 
Believe me to be, 
Very sincerely yours, 
JOSEPH D. HOOKER. 
