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The leading articles are Sage, Wormwood, Horehound, Boneset, Cat- 
nep, etc. As the demand for different articles fluctuates in different 
years, we could not give the exact number of pounds of each article ; 
but some years we have sold as much as 1000 pounds of some of the 
above mentioned, while of some of the minor varieties we do not sell 
ten pounds. 
These articles are sold in all parts of North and South America, the 
Sandwich Islands, and China, and I am not aware that there has been 
much sold on the continent of Europe. For a few years past the Cali- 
fornian and Australian trade has required large quantities of our pre- 
parations. 
If you would like to send to Sir William Hooker, for the Museum 
at Kew, specimens of Extracts in glass jars, each jar enclosed in a neat 
paper box, prepared by the society at New Lebanon, I will procure 
them of the Agent and forward them to you as samples free of cost*, 
Fursua Myrick. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Survey of Fijee Islands, ete. 
Captain Denham has, fortunately for science, two naturalists on 
board H.M.S. Herald, now employed surveying that group of islands 
in the South Pacific Ocean, of which those of Fijee may be considered 
the centre,—Mr. Macgillivray (who was formerly naturalist in the 
Rattlesnake), and Mr. William Milne, assistant-naturalist. These gen- 
tlemen have not been idle, as we can testify by the arrival of the collec- 
tions of plants which they have formed at the several places they have — — 
touched at on their way to Sydney, and as is shown by the following“ 
extract from Mr. Macgillivray’s letter addressed to us from that Co- — 
lony, dated February 23, 1853. 
“The collection now sent contains about 680 species of Flowering 
Plants and Ferns, all numbered consecutively and catalogued. There 
are also a number of Cryptogamia, labelled of course, but not numbered, 
LA very full se of the drugs în cakes, and extra, is deposited in the Kew : 
useum. f ‘ 
