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will share, has still farther increased the expenses, both by 
his illness and by the funeral, which could not be expected 
to be defrayed by the very scanty means of his parents. 
The account shows that, besides the shares already sub- 
scribed for, 20 more single shares should be made up and 
offered for sale, in order completely to cover the expenses: 
but, in that case, each single share at 30s. could not contain 
more than 150 specimens.* In place of this, we now make 
a proposal to increase to subscribers for single shares, of 
which there are 60 on the list, the number of specimens to 
200, in return for which we solicit an addition of 10s. to the 
sum already subscribed. We not only think this proposal 
to be very desirable for the members, since they obtain, by 
these means, a more complete Flora of the Pyrenées, but 
we also think it to be our duty to make this proposal to them 
before we look out for other subscribers. However, we re- 
quest such of the members as are not agreeable to our 
present proposal, but remain satisfied with the number of 
150 distinct species, to send us their answer by post, as we - 
shall consider each subscriber from whom no answer has — 
arrived by the 5th of March, as coinciding in our proposal, 
and shall draw upon the receiver for the additional 10s. 
With regard to the Algiers Expedition, we are enabled to 
present the agreeable news, that Mr. Schimper arrived 
there on the 10th of last December, and that his reports 
are very promising for a favourable result of the under- 
taking. In the mean time, Mr. Schimper, in case he succeeds 
in entering into an advantageous agreement with a French 
medical officer, who is also a botanist, and who has offered 
his services, will again leave Algiers for the Balearic Islands, 
by which means the Unio Itineraria may expect to obtain not 
only one twelvemonths' Flora of Algiers, (collected for the 
summer season by the French botanist,) but also a Flora of 
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greater expenses of the journey. But, on the other hand, the species are more 
scarce and of greater interest to the science. As proof of it, a printed list, enu- 
merating part of the collection, will here be added. 
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