TO 
HON OURABLE SIR JAMES W. COLVILE, eT 
PUISNE JUDGE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALCUTTA, ETC., 
PRESIDENT OF THE ASTATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
THE HONOURABLE SIR LAURENCE PEEL, KNT, 
CHIEF JUDGE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALCUTTA, ETC., 
PRESIDENT OF THE AGRI-HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, 
Chis Whrk is Medicated, 
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THEIR EMINENT SERVICES IN PROMOTING THE DIFFUSION OF SCIENCE AND 
OF HORTICULTURE IN INDIA, 
BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND OBLIGED FRIEND, 
JOSEPH D. HOOKER. 
Royan Garpuns, Knw, 
June 30, 1855. 
