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clair. Mr. Bentham published the ‘ Botany of the Voyage of the Sul- 
phur’ in 1844. The third and last voyage, to which we now allude, is 
that of H.M.S. ‘ Herald,’ under the command of Captain Kellett, a 
gentleman who has singularly promoted every department of science, 
during a peculiarly interesting voyage of six years’ duration, and extend- 
ing to very high arctic regions. Mr. Thomas Edmonston, a zealous 
botanist, native of one of the Shetland Islands, of which he has pub- 
lished a Flora, in part from materials collected at a very early age, em- 
barked as Naturalist. The duties of the survey in the Pacific had 
scarcely commenced, when this promising young man was killed at the 
mouth of the river Sua, coast of Ecuador, by the accidental discharge 
of a gun. His place was ably filled, at the recommendation of the 
Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew, by Mr. Berthold Seemann, who 
joined the Herald ‘at Panama, in January, 1847, having crossed the 
isthmus to that city. 
On the return of the Herald in 1851, Captain Kellett obtained the 
sanction of the Admiralty for the publication of the Natural History 
of the voyage, and Mr. Seemann undertook the botany, of which the 
present is the first of ten parts to which the work will extend. It will 
be divided into five distinct Floras. 1. The Flora of Western Eskimaux- 
land. 2. The Flora of North-western Mexico. 3. The Flora of the 
Isthmus of Panama.. 4. The Flora of Southern China (to include the 
collection of Dr. H. Hance). 5. Plants collected in the Hawaiian 
Islands, Peru, Ecuador, and Kamtchatka. - 
The present number commences with a ** Summary of the Voyage ;” 
“ An Historical Notice” and an “ Introduction ” to the Flora of Eski- 
maux-land follow. Then a “Synopsis,” or rather catalogue of the 
species, with synonyms, station, and occasional observations, together 
with the specific character of the very few little known or ill-defined : 
species; the whole amounting to 315 species. And lastly, there isa — 
list of the plants brought home from recent Arctic Voyages by Captain 
Pullen (a very extensive collection, 174 species of phænogamic plants), 
Captain Penny (collected by Dr. Sutherland, 45 species), and Mr. Ede 
(26 species). The “Introduction” will be read with much interest, = 
especially the account of the ice-cliffs in Kotzebue Sound, and which is — 
further illustrated by a beautifully coloured plate. So completely have 
these Arctic regions been now explored by our navigators and travellers, 
that neither in Mr. Seemann’s Catalogue of Western Eskimaux-land 
