sending Collectors to different parts of Europe. 29 



The result of the last year's travels in Istria and the Alps 

 of Germany, and the shores of the Adriatic, has arrived at 

 Stuttgard, and it will soon be divided. The indefatigable M. 

 Fleischer has been sent to Smyrna, where he will remain till 

 May of the present year, so that he will have collected a whole 

 year's Flora in that interesting country. He will then employ 

 the rest of the summer in Carniola, where he will identify 

 many of Scopoli's plants. 



M. Miiller is gone to Sardinia, and it is hoped that the 

 means will be afforded of sending him a co-operator. Indeed, 

 the society looks for assistance to England, and I hope it will 

 not look in vain, when the nature of the institution shall be 

 more generally made known. " Perhaps," says Dr Steudel 

 in a letter to a friend in this country, " the subscription of 

 fifteen florins is thought in England very trifling, but we are 

 obliged to consider our German poverty, and indeed any one 

 who considers it no great sacrifice is at liberty to take as 

 many shares as he thinks proper. Scrupulous exactness in 

 the distribution we look upon as one of our first duties, so as 

 to insure by equal rights, and strict impartiality, the success 

 of this infant establishment. If we should meet with suffi- 

 cient support, we shall, in this case, send a third traveller to 

 the southern parts of Hungary, and to the mountains of Tran- 

 sylvania, where many new and rare plants are likely to be 

 found. Perhaps you are surprised that so much can be done 

 with such small means, but this problem is solved by the cir- 

 cumstance, that we employ young men, who ask for no other 

 reward than the gratification which they derive from their 

 travels. Were it possible to obtain English subscribers for 

 several successive years, it would give us the advantage, 

 while sure of the means, of arranging the necessary prepa- 

 rations for future expeditions with greater effect."" 



I trust that this appeal to that love of botany which exists 

 in Britain will not be ineffectual. 



