524 BOTANICAL, INFORMATION. 



Stewart, of Scotland, he offers his hearty thanks for their 

 assistance, and here closes these hasty notes on the Missouri 

 and Oregon territories. 



Charles A. Geyer. 



Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, 

 March 8, 1846. 



{The List of Mr. Geyer' s plants will follow.) 



Notes made during a Continental Tour, in the summer and 

 autumn of 1846, being extracted from letters addressed to 

 the Editor by a botanical friend.* 



Copenhagen, July 2, 1846. 



I landed at Hamburgh on Friday morning last, and re- 

 mained there four days, enjoying the beauty of the town 

 and its neighbouring gardens, but without seeing much in the 

 way of botany. Dr. Lehmann, in the midst of various other 

 occupations, has found time to finish, or nearly finish, the 

 editing of Plantce Preissiana, of which the supplementary 

 part is now printing ; and besides him, some younger bota- 

 nists have commenced publishing at Hamburgh, by contri- 

 buting to the same work. The most active and promising is 

 M. Sonder, a young man, one of the principal Apothekers, 

 a class much superior to the generality of our apothecaries in 

 point of general information. I had only the opportunity of 

 seeing him for a few minutes ; he appears very zealous, and is 

 now occupied with Port Natal plants, of which he is publish- 



* Other similar extracts, from former letters of the same distinguished 

 botanist, written during former tours, and published in the Companion to 

 the Botanical Magazine, vol. II. pp. 74 and 187, and Journal of Botany, 

 p. 103, relate to Germany, France, and the Pyrenees. The present extracts 

 will be found to refer to places much less frequently visited by the tra- 

 velling naturalist. — Ed. 



