30 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
been received respecting William Schimper’s interesting 
travels in Abyssinia. 
We proceed to give some details, extracted from a letter 
just arrived. 
In the close of February last, this enterprising traveller - 
reached Massova on the Red Sea, bringing with him the - 
bulk of his valuable collections, a small part only having 
been necessarily left at Adoa. During the month of Mayo 
the preceding year, M. Schimper had visited the mountains of - 
Semen, where he spent the summer in investigating the Flora 
of those very high alpine regions, and where he suffered 
severely from frequent rain and snow, accompanied with | 
much cold. Thence he directed his steps in September to 
Tackatze, and adding the collections of these different dis- 
tricts together, he returned. to his. starting-point, Adoa, 
in October. Our traveller despatched the first portion of 
his treasures by Massova to Djedda, and we may soon look - 
for their arrival by way of Suez and Alexandria. The 
remainder, including the collection left at Adoa, it is M. 
Schimper's intention to bring home himself; but first, he - 
desires to devote a short time to a thorough investigation of 
the botanical productions of the lower coast, inhabited by a — 
people called Schocho, so that he may be able to amass and — 
lay before the naturalists of eosin a complete Flora of E 
Abyssinia. 
M. Schimper’s collections will thus contain :— 
1. The principal part of the coast vegetation, to the alti- 
tude of 4000 feet above the sea. 
II. The Flora of the vicinity of Adoa, from 4000 to 8000 
feet above the sea. 
. HL. The plants of the Alpine Sikia of Semen, — 
ing toa height of 12,000 feet. . 
IV. The vegetation of the n river, which, disosi 
ing from the Aby ^en ques itself at imum into 
the Nile. 5 ; 
That these élections are of immense importance to 
science is evident; and we cannot doubt that the respected. 
