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ing a collection, containing many new things. He is also, I 

 believe, to edit those of Zeyher, who is now at Hamburgh. 

 His herbarium is already very considerable. Besides M. 

 Sonder, Dr. Steetz, a physician, has worked up Preiss's Com- 

 posite ; and Dr. Gottsche is working specially at Hepaticce, 

 of which he is said to have a very large collection. There is, 

 moreover, an octavo volume, just published by a Dr. Hiibener, 

 under the name of a Flora of the Environs of Hamburgh. 

 The Botanical Garden is under the direction of M. Edward 

 Otto (son of M. Otto, of Berlin), who collected for the Berlin 

 Museum in Cuba and La Guayra. He is endeavouring to 

 restore the garden from the low state into which it had fallen 

 under his predecessor; but unfortunately, most of Preiss's 

 plants, of which they ought to have so many, were lost before 

 M. Otto came. 



I slept at Kiel on Tuesday night, and yesterday morning 

 paid my visit to the Professor of Botany, Dr. Notte, whom I 

 had seen at the Hamburgh Meeting, in 1830. As far as 

 botany is concerned, he is occupied almost exclusively with 

 the Flora of his province, the duchy of Sleswig-Holstein, 

 where he has found a few interesting, almost sub -alpine plants, 

 not, as he believes, previously gathered in the flat parts of the 

 North of Europe ; and has been paying particular attention to 

 natural hybrids, which he has ascertained to exist, and 

 brought into his garden, belonging to Stachys, Potentilla, 

 Rumex, Hypericum, &c, and never, to his knowledge, pro- 

 ducing ripe seeds, either wild or in the garden. 



July 5th. — The Professor of Botany here, Dr. Schouvv, so 

 well known for his labours on geographical botany, has been 

 suffering much, for the last year and a half, from rheumatic 

 fever. I found him up and writing, but he has not been able 

 to do much of late, and it is to be feared that he is by 

 no means convalescent. The adjunct Professor, Dr. Lieb- 

 mann, who lectures for him, is a very active young man. He 

 returned, between two and three years ago, from Mexico, with 

 a collection of plants, which he estimates at ten thousand 

 species, including mosses and lichens of which he has a great. 



