Results of the visits of 1886 and 1897

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Dr Melchior Trcub, the distinguished and genial Director of the Botanical Institute at Buitenzorg in Java, rendered a great service to Science by initiating the study of the new Krakatau flora and thus paving the way for further investigations. The botanical explorations, made on three difterent occasions, of the islands which were entirely depleted of vegetation in 1883 have not only furnished results of general biological interest, but by demonstrating the successive stages in colonisation, they also afford one of the most important contributions towards the solution of the much discussed problem as to the source and history of the introduction of a flora into an island far removed from the mainland. The older literature concerned with this interesting problem in plant-geography, so far as regards direct observation, deals with the history of colonisation of recently formed coral islands, that is of flat land surfaces, and with the investigation of the means of dispersal of plants fr

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