An analysis of the British ferns and their allies / By G.W. Francis.

  • George William Francis
Date:
1842
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An analysis of the British ferns and their allies / By G.W. Francis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/122
    TO SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, LLD.; F.R., A. & L.S., &c. &c. &c. AND LATE PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. SIR, To you, who stand so far before all other Writers in a practical knowledge of British Botany, and who have made the Ferns so particularly the subject of your attention, 1 beg respectfully to dedicate this little Work. I am aware that it is too small to be worthy of your attention; but I am anxious to take as early an opportunity as possible of offering my homage to those brilliant talents which have contributed so essentially to diffuse a love of Botany; that energy without which even talents are unavailing, and that urbanity of manners and liberality of feeling for which Botanists have always been celebrated. That you may long be spared the full enjoyment of all your mental and physical faculties, to cheer your Friends and to instruct the World, is the ardent wish of Sir, Your most obedient Servant, THE AUTHOR.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3