60 MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLECTIONS. 
British Museum, and collections of Seeds for Mr Mur — 
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During the spring and summer, Mr. Drummond explored 
the neighbourhood of New Orleans, with his accustomed zeal, 
and thrice visited the opposite shore of the Lake Pontchar- — 
traine; and during these excursions formed another ample . 
collection of nearly 300 species of plants (exclusive of Crypto- — 
gamiæ), and many Insects and Shells, which were received in 
Glasgow in two very large chests, in August of the present year, — 
(1832.) These will be distributed to the respective subscribers _ 
as soon as uniform numbers can be put to all the species, such 
as accompanied the South American collections of Mr. Cum- 
ing. It will be my object, in an early No. of the Miscellany, — 
to give a list of names, corresponding with those Nos; by — 
which means the value of the species will be considerably in- — 
creased to the subscribers. 2 
By the last accounts which were received from Mr. Drame — 
mond, we learn that it was his intention to set out for Nat- E 
chatoches on the Red River, whence he hoped to despatch 4 E 
collection, vié New Orleans, and proceed to Texas; but his _ 
exact route, or the length of his visit there, must depend upon _ 
a variety of circumstances, and upon the success attending the — 
disposal of his collections in Europe. It is the expense alone 
attending the transport of his baggage in so unfrequented ^ - 
country, that has prevented this enthusiastic traveller from 
being already among the mountains of Mexico. That he will | 
soon be able to accomplish this desirable object I cannot 
allow myself to doubt, when I witness the almost daily increas- _ 
ing interest that is expressed for his success in a country | 
hitherto untrodden by the foot of any Naturalist.—( W. J. H.) 
