300 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
death, which event occurred last year. It will interest all 
lovers of Botany to know that Mr. Harvey, the able author 
of the * Genera of South African Plants," and of many 
writings on Alge (in which department of Botany he un- 
questionably holds the first rank), has recently been ap- 
pointed his successor : and we are sure, if properly supported 
by funds from the college, and with his facilities of making 
exchanges, he will soon raise the value of the collection, sO 
as to entitle it to a name among the most useful of European 
Herbaria, and to a place in some future edition of the work 
mentioned in our last article. 
Extracts from letters of Mr. Jas. DnuMMOND, relating 10 
Swan River Borany. 
Hawthornden Farm, Toodjay Valley, 
Sept. 1842. 
In an account which I dately sent you, of a journey to the 
south of the Vasse River, you may remember my mentioning 
a tract of grassy country which was discovered by us about 
fifty miles north of this place. My sons have now two sta- 
tions for their sheep there, and being told by the natives of a 
river and lakes of water two days’ journey farther north, 
they determined to explore the country in that direction, and 
set off to do so, accompanied by Capt. Scully, the Govern- 
ment-Resident of this district. Some gentlemen, among 
whom was Mr. Gilbert, the Ornithologist, (I have formerly 
mentioned him to you, he has lately come out again to Sw 
River), intended to have joined the exploring party. They, - 
however, arrived too late, as was the case with myself, so 
my remarks must chiefly be confined to what fell under my 
own and Mr. G’s observation. 
We left Hawthornden on the 22nd of August, and tra- 
velled about twelve miles to Captain Scully's residence, and 
on the following day accomplished five or six miles more 1n 8 
northerly line, examining on our way some large masses 9 
