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procured a sufficient number of specimens (notwithstanding having to 

 carry them generally on my saddle-horse) as to supply you, as also 

 some of your eminent botanical friends ; and I hope Kew Garden will 

 also receive some modest but nevertheless acceptable additions from 

 the many kinds of seeds which I gathered. My main harvest of new, 

 and I hope also ornamental plants^ will be likely in the Alps to which 

 I am now proceeding; and for the investigation of some prominent 

 points, I shall devote the favourable months of February and March, 

 and, if the weather becomes not too inclement, also April next. 



I have not heard from Melbourne since I left that capital, but hope 

 to receive letters in Albury, by which T will learn if my large box with 

 specimens and some seeds, as well as the set of manuscript on the 

 Victoria Flora, has been sent away by His Excellency, or will remain 

 under his care till he returns home. By an occasional glance on a home 

 paper, I perceived, to my great delight, that Professor William Harvey 

 visits our shores for the purpose of enlarging and advancing his phy- 

 cological works ; and you will readily imagine that I shall hail his ar- 

 rival in Melbourne, and his stay under my roof, with the greatest plea- 

 sure, being myself here almost in a botanical exile, and having to learn 

 so very much from a man of Dr. Harvey's standing. The letters in 

 which I desired Dr. Joseph Hooker to visit Dr. Sonder in Hamburg, 

 for the purpose of selecting from my herbarium there a specimen of 

 all those plants he may consider useful, many adding without doubt to 

 his desirable 'Flora Tasmanica,' you will have received. 



Dr. Harvey will see in my herbarium at least three hundred New 



Holland and Tasmanian Algse. 



Febd. Mulleb. 



Dr. Stocks and his Collections. 



After many years zealously employed in botanical pursuits in the 

 Bombay Presidency, particularly in Scinde and Beloochistan (as is 

 well known to the readers of our Journal;, Dr. Stocks is now on leave 

 of absence, arrived in Ei 



some time be engaged, with the aid of the Library and Herbaria at 

 Kew, in the arrangement and description of them, and, we trust, in 

 conjunction with Drs. Hooker and Thomson, of other plants illustra- 

 tive of the botanv of India. 



