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the privilege of bringing into notice many novelties of great 
interest derived from the researches of our friends and corres- 
pondents in different quarters of the globe, from some coun- 
tries of which, till now, the vegetable productions were 
comparatively unknown to the man of science. We allude 
particularly to the Fiji Islands, to Japan and China, to 
Borneo, Tropical Africa, East and West, &c. &c. ; the results 
of the labours of Brackenridge, Milne, Macgillivray, Harvey, 
Seemann (Fiji) ; Wright, Wilford, Urquhart, Alcock, Hodg- 
son (China and Japan); Low, Motley, Lobb (Borneo); 
Yogel, Baikie and Barter, Kirk, in Livingstone’s Expedition 
(Tropical Africa), and others too numerous to mention, but 
whose names stand recorded in these pages. Not a few we 
trust will be found faithfully and unmistakeably exhibited in 
our two Centuries ; and many, for which we have no space 
here, will be received, and if possible figured in our “ Species 
Filicum,*” now in course of Publication. 
Royal Gardens, Kew, 
May, 1861. 
* "Speoibs Filicum; being descriptions of the known Ferns, particularly of such as exist 
in the Author’s Herbarium, or are, with sufficient accuracy, described in works to which he 
has had access ; accompanied with numerous figures, by Sir W. J. Hooker.” Of this work 
three volumes have appeared, with 210 plates. Vol. IV. is now in the press. 
