306 BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 



florins, are still to be had; and lastly, a few centuries of North 

 American plants from the Ohio district,"at twelve florins each. 



puofessor hochstetteij. 



Dr Ern. Steudel. 

 EssLiNGEN, 30</i Nov. 1840. 



Immediately after our Report of the 30th November was 

 printed, we received from the mercantile house in Alexan- 

 dria, through which our intercourse with M. Scliimper is 

 carried on, the very pleasing intelligence that the second con- 

 signment of his Abyssinian Botanical Treasures, consisting of 

 twenty-four cases, had safely arrived in Cairo. Through the 

 same channel we are now also in possession of letters from 

 the traveller himself, dated Adoa, July 8th, 1840, from which 

 we learn that he is still full of zeal to devote himself further 

 in the cause of science. By this it will be seen that the 

 hopes expressed in our Report of 30th ultimo, will soon be 

 realized ; for we have little fear that the collections, having 

 safely reached Cairo, will now be lost. 



With steady perseverance our traveller will now follow his 

 object, and to a much further extent than we originally anti- 

 cipated ; he will now travel up the Nile to its source, and 

 tliere continue his collections. One reason which has in- 

 duced him to continue his researches through the higher and 

 alpine district is, a wish to avoid a prolonged stay in the 

 lower country bordering the Red Sea, where he would be 

 much more exposed to the plague and other epidemic dis- 

 eases so prevalent there. 



He most urgently appeals to us for further supplies, in 

 order still to prosecute his researches. We however find it 

 utterly impossible to send him any more money, unless our 

 honoured Members speedily enable us to do so, by further 

 advances. We therefore once more earnestly beg on his 

 behalf for additional supplies, as thereon depend the life and 

 health of this traveller, who has rendered so great and valu- 

 able services, not only to botany and geography, but now 

 thinks to crown the whole of his arduous exertions by tracing 



