52 MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLECTIONS. 
letter I have received from him. Dr. Graham, Dr. Richard- 
son, G. A. W. Arnott, Esq, William Christy, Esq. Chas. 
Parker, Esq., James Smith of Jordanhill, Esq., George Ben- 
tham, Esq., P. Neill, Esq., Messers. Lawson and Cunningham, — 
Nurserymen, Edinburgh, H. C. Watson, Esq., Charles Lyall 
of Kinnordy, Esq., Professor Lindley, Henry Sandbach, Esq. ae | 
of Liverpool, Pofessor Henslow, Dr. Greville, J. G. Children, 
Esq., of the British Museum, The Directors of the Manches- 
ter Botanical and Horticultural Institution, those of Glasgow, 
R. J. Shuttleworth, Esq., J. T. Mackay, Esq., B. D. Greene, 
Esq., and Dr. Greene of Boston, U. S. A., Mr. Stephen Endli- 
cher of Vienna, have each contributed, pecuniarly or other- 
wise, towards the success of this enterprise ; and they have the 
satisfaction of knowing that the amount and value of Mr. 
Drummond's collections have already exceeded their expecta- 
tions; and should life and health be granted him, there is 
every prospect of his mission being attended with greater and 
more important results. Of wbat has been hitherto done, 
and what it is in contemplation to do, I shall now proceed to 
give some account; and this I cannot convey better than in 
extracts from Mr. Drummond's letters to me, consequently in 
his own words. : 
The first letter was dated New-York, 28th April, 1831, and — 
was written under an impression that Santa Fé in North Mex- 3 
ico might have been reached during that season, —* I arrived — 
here," he says, “on the 25th instant, after an excellent pas- i 
sage from Liverpool, and immediately delivered your letters 
of introductionto Drs. Torrey and Hosack, and I found them 
much disposed to render me all the assistance in their power» — 
especially by offering me letters to several Naturalists whom 
Iam likely to fallin with on my journey. The English Consul . 
has furnished me with an introduction to the British Minister 
at Washington, that I may procure recommendations to the 
military establishment on the Missouri, &c., and I understand 
there are letters forwarded to New Orleans from Mr. Aster 
one of the principals of the American Fur Traders, so that I 
am likely to meet with little difficulty in prosecuting my Jour 
