974 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Mr. H. C. Watson, visited that group of islands in the summer 
of 1842, and published his very valuable remarks on their ve- 
getation in the pages of the present Journal.* Four years pre- 
viously, Messrs. Hochstetter and Guthnick spent some time 
in making botanical researches in the Azores, and the former 
of these gentlemen, in conjunction with M. Seubert, has been 
employed on the collections thus formed, and is preparing a 
work under the title of *FLoRgA Azorica, quam ex collectioni- 
bus schedisque Hocusrerrenrt patris et filii elaboravit et Ta- 
bulis XIV. eneis illustravit MaAuRitius SEunERT Itis 
said that it would appear in Germany about Easter, and we 
trust it will soon arrive in England. 
BOTANY or tHe ANTARCTIC VOYAGE. 
At page 247 of the last volume of our Journal, will be 
found some particulars of the Voyage of Her Majesty's dis- 
covery ships, EREBUs and Terror, in the Polar regions 
the southern hemisphere, and of the general results in refe- 
rence to Botany. The several places touched at, and more OF 
less explored, are mentioned, until the return of the vessels 
to the Cape of Good Hope in the month of April 1543, after 
spending three summers in the fruitless attempt, notwith- 
standing the skill and valour of the commanding officer and 
the courage and bravery of the crews, to reach the South Pole. 
Still, the shores of a great continent, Victoria Land, clothed 
with everlasting ice and snow, were discovered and traced for 
upwards of three hundred miles. These exhibited a mountain 
region of great elevation, from 9,000 to 12,000 feet, (one of 
these mountains an extinct volcano), and the latitude of 773 
was attained, several degrees beyond what had been reac 
by any other navigator. Captain (now Sir James Clark) Ross 
brought his ships home in safety in October 1843, after à — 2 
four years’ absence, and the collections of Natural History 
were all deposited in the British Museum, where it was xcd 
* See vol. ii, p. 1, p. 125, and p. 394. 
