TO 
SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, 
K. H., LL.D., F. R., A. & L. S., &c. &c. 
REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. 
To no one could this Volume he more appropriately dedi- 
cated than to you, to whom I am indebted for my early in- 
structions in the Science of Botany, and from whom I first 
acquired a taste for its study. It will in the highest degree 
be gratifying to me, should the result of my labours meet 
with your approbation, and should you consider that I have 
at all contributed in extending our acquaintance with the 
Flora of the West Indies. 
James Macfadyen. 
Glasgow, 1 ( )th Oct., 1837 . 
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