PLAN OF FLOBA ANTABCTICA 171 
To find a publisher for the book was a matter, Sir WilHam 
confesses to Dawson Turner, of very great difficulty. But at 
last a young publisher in King William Street, named Lovell 
Keeve, undertook it on condition of receiving all the material 
of drawings, plates, and text without further payment, and 
that not one copy should be given away to a person likely to 
buy it. 
Coupled with this news of the book Sir William gave another 
piece of news scarcely less interesting to Dawson Turner. On 
the following day, April 2, 1844, Joseph was to be received 
into the Linnean Society, to which he had been elected during his 
absence from England. His grandfather had been a member 
since 1797. 
A fortnight later : ' Joseph is very hard at work on his 
Flora and three or four plates are prepared. But I do not 
think he is yet aware of the great labour in store for him — eight 
plates a month and two sheets of letterpress.' No one was 
more aware of this than Sir William, with his long experience 
of botanical books and journals ; and Dawson Tm-ner, to whom 
he submitted the proofs for notes and suggestions, knew some- 
thing of it also. 
The work was to appear in three parts : the first, or Antarctic 
portion, to be dedicated to Koss ; the second (Flora of New 
Zealand) to Prince Albert, and the third (Flora of Van Diemen's 
Land) either to Sir Kobert Peel or to Kobert Brown. Sir 
WilKam. asked Dawson Turner to draw up the dedication to 
Eoss. The publication of the first instalment early in June 
calls forth congratulations from Mr. Lyell of Kinnordy on 
Joseph's debut as an author. 
At the same time he furnished Koss with various material 
for his account of the Antarctic Voyage. On the one hand 
were short botanical sketches of such places as Eoss desired, 
with the full identifications of plants now possible. Thus ' the 
liliaceous plant' mentioned in his first account of the Auckland 
and Campbell Islands (he trounces the French botanists for 
calling it a Veratrum in the account of D'Urville's voyage) is 
now individualised as Chrysohactron Bossii. These islands he 
found to be ' the richest spots we visited anywhere for new 
