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shares could not, consequently, receive a double number of 
species; but they have been indemnified by a selection of 
superior specimens and by numerous duplicates. Indeed, we 
wish it to be generally understood, that the Flora of the 
Pyrenées has much in common with that of the Alps, and 
that, therefore, many kinds which have been already for- 
warded to the Members of the Unio, will not be again 
collected. 
* Besides the produce of the Pyrenzan journey, we have, 
we trust, definitively arranged with a Botanist at Schuschi, in 
Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus and towards the confines 
of Persia, who will be employed in collecting for us during the 
present and following years. In the present season he will 
direct his attention to the plants of Bieberstein’s Flora Taurico- 
Caucasica. The specimens already sent, as a sample, show 
the interesting character of the vegetation of those regions, 
and some of the species appear to be different from any 
described by Bieberstein; 
* We now recommend both these undertakings to the 
Members of the Society; and it is earnestly requested that 
the subscriptions will be forwarded at an early period: for, 
on the one hand, it is essential that Mr. Endress be furnished 
with the whole sum to be expended on his journey previously 
to his reaching the Hautes Pyrenées; so, on the other hand, 
as only from 50 to 60 sets of the Georgian plants are order ed, 
the Members will be supplied according to the dates of their 
subscriptions. The subscription for the Georgian plants is 
only 15 florins (about 30 shillings) for each share; that 
for the collection of Pyrenzan plants, as before announced. 
“ For the year 1832, we are anxious to plan a journey = 
Algiers ; presuming that the French Government will still « 
maintain the dominion over that northern part of Africa: and 
we have the certain prospect of a Collector from the Unio 
Itineraria meeting with every encouragement towards the 
ngu c e 
natural for a collector, destitute of the means of examination and compari i 
to gather some plants as novel or scarce, which, on a closer investigation 
under more favourable circumstances, he may find to be not uncommon: 
