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of Prince Metternich in 1848, published by my brother in the National Review for June 1883.

Of the memoirs now reprinted, two were written by old and valued friends of my parents, Lady Georgiana Fullerton and Baron von Reumont. The third, the address by Dr Wiesner, at the unveiling of the Hügeldenkmal, has an interest of its own as coming from one who, without any personal knowledge of my father, grew through years of botanical research, not only to value his scientific attainments, but also greatly to esteem and admire his character. I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without expressing the deep gratitude felt by my mother, my brother, and myself to Dr Wiesner and to the Verein der Gärtner und Gartenfreunde in Hietzing, of which he was the mouth-piece, for having revived in Austria the memory of my father’s work.

I have to thank the Autotype Company for the care which they have bestowed on the excellent reproductions of portraits given in this volume, the negatives for which were, at considerable trouble, kindly taken for me by Mr H. A. Chapman, of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

I add a plate representing the Patron‘s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London to the list of distinctions received by my father. He valued this medal, given for his explorations in Cashmere, and the Armee Kreuz, commemorative of the 1813-14 campaign, (of which I also give a figure), perhaps more than any of his other decorations, for 'they,' he used to say, 'meant real hard work.' The 1849 medal given by Pope Pius IX (see page xx), commemorates a remarkable episode in the history b