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" Mersey Hotel, Liverpool, 

 " II th July, I8il. 



" I AM happy to inform you that I have at last safely arrived 

 here. We made land on Thursday (8th) evening, and 

 reached the mouth of the Mersey yesterday afternoon about 

 five o'clock, but had to lie to till three o'clock this morning 

 for want of water, during which time we experienced a terri- 

 ble gale from the N.N.W. It beoran to calm about three 

 o'clock, and the tide then beginning to flow, we stood up the 

 river, and anchored opposite the docks about six o'clock, a.m. 

 The vessel may perhaps get into dock to-morrow. In the 

 mean time, I start for Manchester, to see our friend, Mr 

 Bowman, and shall return to-morrow forenoon. I find that 

 there are steamers to Glasgow every day, and it is possible 

 that I shall get away on Vv'ednesday afternoon. I find the 

 weather awfully cold. It seems as if it were winter. 



" George Gardner." 



Bepertoriuni Botanices Specialis. 



Dr G. Walpers of Berlin announces his intention of pub- 

 lishing, under the above title, a work which cannot fail to be 

 acceptable to all students of botany, and which, " comprising 

 the newer productions of botanical literature, shall give a 

 survey of all the species of plants which have been described 

 since the appearance of De CandoUe's Frodromus, Wilde- 

 now's Species Plantarum, and the similar productions of 

 Sprengel, and Rocmer, and Schultz. Certainly every friend 

 and lover of botany has already felt the desire, as the number 

 of works in his branch of science has daily increased, to pos- 

 sess a book that might afford him accurate information where 

 this or that genus or species has been described, and what 

 new works have appeared since the publication of those just 

 mentioned, and which are still unfurnished. To satisfy this 

 laudable curiosity is the object of the Repertorium here an- 

 nounced, which will exactly correspond with Endiicher's ad- 



