Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora, Vol. 1
As it was obviously impossible, except in a few special cases, to send proofs of the artist's drawings or of the lithographer's work backwards and forwards between England and New Zealand, it became necessary to select some experienced botanist resident in England to act as supervisor. It must be regarded as a fortunate circumstance that the services of Mr. W. B. Hemsley, F late Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, were available for the purpose, for Mr. Hemsley's wide reputation as a botanist, and his long experience in editing and supervising the publication of botanical works, gave his assistance a special value. His duties were to approve the artist's sketch, to control the dissections and to indicate their arrangement on the plate, to pass the finished drawings, to receive proofs of the lithographs, and finally to pass for printing. In addition to the above, Mr. Hemsley was kind enough to make several com parisons with the specimens preserved in the Kew Herbarium with the object of establishing the identity of the material figured with the actual type of the species.
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