Excerpt from A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated Under Glass in Great Britain, Vol. 1: Epidendreæ We gratefully acknowledge our deep obligations to the numerous patrons and friends who have with untiring kindness supplied us with materials for description and illustration of rare and little known kinds, without which the issue Of this work in its present form would have been impossible. The various sources from which these materialshave been derived are duly noted in their respective places. The determination of the correct nomenclature of 'very many species has necessitated constant reference to the original types preserved in the National llerbaria. To the heads of these departments an especial acknowledgment is due, and we tender our warmest thanks to Mr. W. T. Thisclton Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and to Mr. J. G. Baker, the Keeper of the Herbarium, and his assistants; also to Mr. W. Carruthcrs, of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and to his stafi', for their unremitting kindness and assistance in enabling us to inspect the herbarium specimens under their charge, by which many perplexing questions of nomenclature have been definitely settled. We also gladly acknowledge our indebtedness to Dr. Maxwell 'l'. Masters for his article on the Teratology of Orchids and for his assistance in the preparatory notes on the minute anatomy of the leaves. And we must gratefully recognise the un remitting eare which our assistant Mr. A. H. Kent has bestowed on the preparation of this work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.