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to island, through favour of some East Pacific cruiser, or otherwise, 
we should not fail to find plenty of zealous naturalists ready for the 
adventure. The issue could scarcely he other than highly important 
to science and creditable to our Government, if, through its patron¬ 
age, the visit were accomplished. 
We say much remains to be done. The island Indefatigable, the 
second largest of the group, and upwards of twenty miles across, 
was visited by Dr. Andersson. He was the first botanist who ever 
set foot on it, and his stay was but for a few hours of one day. 
Nevertheless, several species of great interest were met with, in¬ 
cluding nine, which, so far as w r e know, are peculiar to this island, 
and new to science. Indefatigable, however, has a comparatively 
very poor Flora. From the rest of the group touched at by the 
Swedish expedition, in the course of an eight days’ stay in the 
Archipelago—Chatham, Charles, Albemarle, and James—some 70 
new species were collected by Dr. Andersson, and a considerable 
amount of material accumulated, serving as the basis of a more 
thorough investigation than has been hitherto feasible into the pecu¬ 
liar relations of the Galapagos Flora, both in respect to the disper¬ 
sion through the group of the very numerous endemic species, and 
those common to other areas; no fewer than 118 species being added 
to the Galapageian Flora. 
Dr. Hooker’s well-known essay on the Flora of these Islands 
appeared nearly sixteen years ago.* It was based upon all the col¬ 
lections made previous to that date, the most important of which 
were those of Mr. Darwin, who visited four of the Islands in the 
Beagle expedition (1835), of Edmonstone, in the Herald (1845), and 
of Macrae, Cuming, and one or two others who gathered a few 
plants in one or other of the Islands. These are, of course, all 
worked up in Dr. Hooker’s paper. His enumeration included 225 
species of flowering plants. Dr. Andersson’s additions make a total 
of 332 Phanerogamia, of which no fewer than 174 appear to be pecu¬ 
liar to the Galapagos group. With this new material, Dr. Andersson 
has been enabled to extend and modify the comparisons instituted 
and suggested by Dr. Hooker. The result of these comparisons we 
briefly notice. 
Dr. Hooker directed attentionf to the unusually small proportion 
borne by Monocotyledons to Dicotyledons in the Galapagos Flora, 
the material at his disposal indicating the former as hardly equal to 
1 ; 9th of the latter. Dr. Andersson reduces the proportion to l/6th, 
estimating the Monocotyledons at 47, or l/8th of the entire vegeta¬ 
tion. Of these 47,22 species are endemic. It must be borne in 
mind, however, that Monocotyledons are almost invariably more 
imperfectly represented than Dicotyledons in the early collections 
received from countries but little explored. This arises partly from 
* Linn. Trans, xx. 235. 
f Linn. Trans, xx. 239. 
