Excerpt from Botany of Socotra IN presenting this account of the Botany of the Island of Socotra to the Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, some explanation is necessary of how it came about that an expedition for the scientific exploration of Socotra was sent from England, and how it happened that I was connected with it. 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.