BOTANICAL INFORMATION. ra 
Bill of Exchange, or in cash payments, since the expenses of 
that journey are not yet covered, and some shares are still 
untaken. M. Schimper also collects objects of zoology, upon 
the notice of which our limits forbid us to enter; he has 
given some interesting observations on this point, aud sub- 
scriptions for it may also be received. 
The collections distributed to the Subscribers in the 
winter of 1833-4, consist of plants from Algiers, gathered 
by Schimper; from the Caucasus; from N. America, chiefly 
around Pittsburg, gathered by Voltz, and a few from Cette 
in the South of France. The Society lament that the 
Algerine collection is so limited; but they have been dis- 
appointed of receiving so many as were expected, chiefly 
from unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances attending 
fhe collector. We are informed that M. Schimper was 
preparing himself for a journey to Tunis, extending to the 
interior and mountainous districts, in which he expects to 
be assisted by the Grand Duke of Baden. He will probably 
be accompianed by a physician and botanist of Würtemberg, 
whose collection it is likely may also become the property of 
the * Unio." 
It appears by the same circular that the Society is likewise 
in treaty for Mr. Ecklon's collection of Cape Plants. This 
indefatigable Botanist, as has been already noticed in this 
work, has devoted many years to the investigation of the 
botany of Southern Africa, in conjunction with his friend 
Mr. Zeyher, and has recently returned to Europe with his 
extensive collections, many of them made in the previously 
unexplored regions of the interior. Zeyher visited the dis- 
tricts of Worcester and Clan- William, remained some time 
at the Elephant River, so rich in its vegetable forms, pro- 
ceeded to the Zederberge, where he found many beautiful 
Proteacee and Ericas, thence to the Kamiesberg in Nama- 
qualand, where he gathered Codon Royeni, and Aphyteja 
4iydnora, and the wilds inhabited by Boschesmen, as far as 
the banks of the Orange or Gariep-river. Ecklon tock an 
Opposite course, proceeding by water to Algoa Bay, in order 
