42 SENDTNER’S EXPEDITION 
By next month, I hope to write a more collected and fuller 
account of my proceedings.* 
I have been trying to do something in Geology. Our late hurried 
mode of travelling is unfavourable to investigating the mountains : 
little can be effected beyond breaking off a specimen now and 
then, and packing it up in paper, with a note of the locality. We - 
have had Granite, Gneiss, Mica, and Clayslate, Quartz, Sandstone, 
Conglomerate, and Limestone, all in most admired confusion. 
The only very evident fact to be deduced is that the Himalaya, 
and still more clearly the whole of Kunawur and Piti, have been a 
series of lakes, at a very recent period, the hills and valleys being 
to a great extent patched over with alluvial clays, occasionally 
containing small lacustrine shells. Insects are very scarce, and J 
have been unable to capture a single Beetle, though I have 
repeatedly searched. 
Sept. 4th. We have made two marches since I wrote the pre- 
vious part of this letter ; but I have been laying out Coufervæ and — | 
skinning a bird, and writing, ever since we arrived in camp, and — — 
it is now half-past 1, a.m.—time to go to rest! Farewell. 1 
Tuomas THomsox. 
To the Subscribers to SENDTNER’S EXPEDITION INTO BOSNIA. 
As we gave, in our last volume, an account of Dr. Sendtner’s 
intended herborizing visit to Bosnia, we now publish an extract 
from a late number of the “ Ratisbon Flora,” which we are sure 
will be read by our subscribers with sympathy :— - : 
“ The winter, which was most unusually prolonged in the moun- 
tainous regions of Bosnia, obliged me to spend the early part of 
the season, until the end of April, collecting in the lower districts 
of the country, along the bank of the Save, and in the Podravina, 
where the spring Flora was somewhat more advanced. Several in- - 
* It is with great satisfaction we announce that we have received letters dede | 
_ (Jan. 13, 1848,) which mention the safe arrival of the Expedition on the 27th of 
-. September, at Giak, a town five days’ journey from Leh, (or Ladakh), the Civil bison 
_ as Lassa is the Sacerdotal Capital, of Thibet. TOS. 
