Excerpt from Contribution to the Flora of Australia
My dear Sir,
In presenting to (he public my humble contribution to the Flora of Australia, I feel deeply indebted to your kind consideration for permitting me to dedicate the volume to you; and more especially do I appreciate the association of your name with my occasional papers, inasmuch as most of (hem have been perused by you, and received your favourable notice. But independently of the friendly sentiments you have manifested towards me, and the invaluable assistance I have received from your correspondence for the last eleven years, there are other considerations which induce me to bring your name prominently forward on the present occasion.
Since the days of the illustrious Robert Brown, no botanist has devoted himself more assiduously to the elucidation of Australian Botany than yourself, and certainly none has more richly merited the title "Prince of Australian Botamsts," bestowed upon you by the eminent author of Species Filicum.
When I contemplate the extensive information, profound research, and philosophical discrimination, displayed in the voluminous works published by you, by which you have gained an imperishable reputation, and contributed materially to the advancement of science throughout the civilized world, I may well feel honoured by the friendship of such a man as yourself, and pray that you may long continue to adorn these colonies.
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