Botanical Society in Germany. 2$ 



island, in a dark brown amygdaloid, and is associated with 

 levyne and heulandite. It was discovered by Hisinger, ♦ in 

 the cavities of a kind of lava at Annaklef, near Rostanga, in 

 Scania. The analysis of the Swedish variety by Hisinger 

 slightly differs from that of the Faroe variety by Berzelius. 

 The results obtained were, 



Swedish Variety. Faroe Variety. 



42.60 

 28.00 

 11.43 

 5.63 

 12.70 



100.15 100.36 



The chemical formulae, of course, will deviate in conse- 

 quence of the results from which they are calculated. 



Art. IV. — Some Account of a Society lately established in 

 Germany, of which the object is to send out Botanical Col- 

 lectors to the most interesting parts of Europe ; together with 

 a recommendation to the Naturalists of other Countries^ and 

 especially those of Great Britain, to unite with it. Com- 

 municated by W. Jackson Hooker, LL. D. F. R. S. F.L.S. 

 F. A. S. and Regius Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Glasgow. 



LiKN^us has observed " Herbarium prcestat omni icone, ne- 

 cessarium omni Botanico ,*" and the truth of this remark no 

 one acquainted with the subject will, I think, be disposed to 

 deny. There exists, notwithstanding, on the part of the stu- 

 dent of botany in this country, an almost unconquerable an- 

 tipathy to the operation of gathering and drying plants, sim- 

 ple as that process actually is ; insomuch that I have often 

 heard foreigners express their astonishment at the meagre col- 

 lections of native plants which are found in the Herbaria of 

 Great Britain ; and when the continental naturalists ask us 

 for specimens of some of the vegetable productions peculiar to 



* Berzdius, Arsberilttelse for 1825, p. «11. 



