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into the original idea, plan, wishes or instructions, of the di- 

 rectors, whose resources are consequently much straitened by 

 the continued stay of the traveller; and the longer he stays 

 the more embarrassed will their circumstances become. 



The last direct intelligence received from Wilhelm Schim- 

 per, is dated Adoa, 6th Sept., 1839, to which place he had 

 returned from Massova in order to make a further excursion 

 into the Samon Alps, where, though through indirect intelli- 

 gence, we learn that lie was last summer met with, busily 

 engaged in gathering together his collections, in tolerable 

 health, though suffering in some degree from his eyes. 



There still remains for us to present to the honourable Mem- 

 bers of the Unio Itineraria, some news relating to the under- 

 taking of Dr Fried. Welwitsch to the Azore and Cape Verd 

 Islands. Dr F. W. had found himself, on several accounts, 

 induced to limit his researches and collections, hitherto, to the 

 neighbourhood of Lisbon, with occasional excursions further 

 into Portugal, principally because having met with so many 

 novelties and rarities, it appeared to him wrong altogether to 

 pass them by; at the same time he hoped through his length- 

 ened stay in Lisbon, to have the opportunity of making himself 

 known there, and thereby ensure a greater degree of protection, 

 from the Portuguese government, for travelling through the 

 Azore Islands with greater success, — a hope which is now 

 about to be fulfilled. Two cases of his Portuguese plants 

 are now on their way from Hamburgh, as advice has already 

 reached us to that effect, and we are now ready still to re- 

 ceive subscriptions, as we before announced, of forty-eight 

 florins, and twenty-four florins, for proportionate collections. 

 Of the Georgio- Caucasian plants collected by Hohen- 

 acker, the last portion (viz. the sixth), is now i-eady for dis- 

 tribution, and will forthwith be forwarded to such of the 

 subscribers as have not yet received it ; a few sets of this 

 portion, consisting of eighty species, are still disposable for 

 twelve florins; besides these are also sets of the fifth delivery 

 of two hundred species for twenty-five florins, and a few of 

 the entire collections of four hundred species for forty-eight 

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