32 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
of them consists in a journey, closely bearing in its object and 
place of destination on that of M. Schimper, and the individ- 
ual employed is M. Kotscky, who visited last year the terri- - 
tories of Sennaar, Fasokal, Cardofan, and the Free Negroes, ^ 
having been sent thither by the government of Austria to — 
make botanical collections, which were transmitted to Vienna. | 
This courageous and most industrious young man, alread: 
well skilled in collecting specimens of natural history, and | 
especially au fait in what regards the preservation of plants, — 
has offered to supply our Society with the productions of the - 
above-named countries, which he is now visiting for the 
second time. As we have agreed to his terms, and are ex 
pecting an arrival from him this present autumn, so we no 
invite all naturalists to subscribe from 30 to 60 florins, t 
price of the plants being the same as those of Schimper from 
Abyssinia, and forming a very desirable adjunct to that col- 
lection, whether for elucidation or comparison. 
The other expedition is even now well known to the botani 
cal world, as being confided to Dr Welwitsch from Vienna, 
who has already started in order to explore the Cape de Verd 
and Azores Islands. It is true, tbat these first islands have been 
already visited by M. Brunner of Berne, and the latter by M 
Gruthwick and M. C. Hochstetter, and these gentlemen 
returned last year with highly i interesting botanical collections. 
But their stay was too brief to admit of a thorough research o 
the vegetable productions of these islands, while the success 
that attended their investigations was so encouraging, as t 
promise very important results to future travellers, especiall; 
when viewed as throwing light on that interesting — 
—the Geographical Distribution of Plants. : 
"The. Flora of the Cape de Verd Islands, touching as it. 
were, on one side, that of Senegambia, and on the other 
that of the Canaries, is important, as offering to view the 
vegetation that prevails in the extreme western limit of the 
‘Temperate Zone in this our hemisphere. For this reason, i 
is Dr Welwitsch’s desire, should circumstances prove favor 
able, to explore Ténériffe, the loftiest island of the —_ 
