IV PREFACE.
Algee, Dr. Harvey’s fully illustrated periodical will
content all English students of this tribe; we need
not therefore swell future volumes with these, further
than an occasional illustration of a new or generally
interesting species.
The Mosses and Hepaticse will yet afford materials
for publication, unless we may hope for a complete
account of them from the pen of Mr. W. Wilson, to
whom this department of the work is so largely indebted
;—to him, as to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Mr. C.
C. Babington, and Mr. Borrer, all old and tried friends
of the wrork, our very hearty thanks are due ; and to
the latter gentleman, besides the numerous and classic
descriptions afforded to the work, we are indebted for
a constant superintendence of the whole, and a critical
revision of every proof sheet,—a labour of kindness
best appreciable by those who have had similar
tasks to perform.
Our future progress ought mainly to be among the
flowering plants and ferns; we shall be glad, therefore,
to receive, during the present summer, fresh
specimens of new plants for drawing from any of our
friends; and, should health and leisure be permitted
us, we hope to begin a new volume with the new
year.
8 Park Place West, Camden Town,
May 19th, 184-9.