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be found. Year by year the natives of Tuscany come here 

 to collect Archil. 



" There is a charming spring of sweet water in a grotto lined 

 with Adiantum, which grows in the moisture at bottom. I 

 am surprised that some philosopher, disgusted with the world, 

 does not come and act Robinson Crusoe in this delightful spot, 

 where he would find abundance of crabs and lobsters to eat. 



" I must now conclude this account of my researches last 

 autumn. I write from Algiers, whither I was recalled by 

 matters of business ; and I shall resume my excursions as soon 

 as 1 have completed a little tour that I hope to make to Bleda 

 next week," 



Harvey's Majwal of British Alg^. 



The Honourable W. H. Harvey,* who has so long and so 

 successfully directed his attention to the Algte, both of the 

 sea and of fresh water, has left in our hands an admirable 

 Mamial of all the British species which Mr Van Voorst has 

 undertaken to publish. The printing of the volume is rapid- 

 ly advancing, and Mr Newman directs the typography, and 

 sees to the careful correction of the press. Such a work can- 

 not fail to be acceptable to every British Botanist, and to do 

 great credit to the well-known talents of the author. 



Extractsfrom the recent letters of Mr Jas. Drummond, chiefly 

 relating to Swan River Botany, 



The fii'st of the letters to which we allude is dated Swan 

 River, September 3d, 1840. " I sent you," he says, " about 

 Christmas last, by the ' Shepherd,' a box containing nearly 

 1300 Swan River plants, together with a long letter on the 

 botany of the colony. (This letter appeared in our Journal, 

 vol. iii.) No opportunity has since offered of sending you 

 additional species. There is indeed seldom an occasion 



* Now resident at the Cape of Good Hope. 



