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194 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
XL—BOTANICAL INFORMATION. : 
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INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING MR GARDNER'S JOUR- 
NEYS AND COLLECTIONS. 
(Were it not for the press of other valuable communications, we would 
gladly have devoted a considerable share in the present No. to miscellaneous 
botanical matter ; but we must confine ourselves to giving some account 
of the further progress of Mr Gardner in his arduous and hitherto most 
eminently successful journeyings in Brazil. The “ Annals of Natural 
History,” and the earlier pages of this Journal contain an account of his 
progress to Oeiras, the capital of Piauhy: and the two last letters from 
which we made extracts, as given at pp. 33 and 37 of this volume, were 
dated, respectively, May 20, 1839, and July 6, 1839. Owing to the 
disturbed state of the country, a previous letter written from Villa de p. 
Crato, Sertao of Ceara, dated Feb. 5, 1839, (two months after that very — — 
interesting one published in the Annals of Natural History, v. 3, P- 827, * 
from the same place), miscarried, and did not reach our hands till March ` 
of the present year (1840). From this we shall now offer some portions, 
in order that a continued record, however brief, of Mr Gardner's travels, 
may find a place in these pages.) 
ViLLA DE Crato, SERTAO or THE PROVINCE 
or Ceará, Feb. 5, 1839. j 
* My Dear Sir,—About two months ago I did myself the 
pleasure of writing you a long letter from this placè, giving — 
you an account of my residence in it up to that period. p 
the same time I despatched to Aracaty, on the coast, four. 
large boxes, containing dried specimens of 470 species of m 
plants for you. For reasons assigned in that letter, | was 
compelled to send them en masse, and shall be under the 2 
necessity of doing the same till I reach the coast, for this 15 —— 
better than running short of paper on my journey to the west 
of Piauhy. Ifthe division of my specimens cannot be effected, 
please to let me know, that I may adopt arrangements Dro 
going home to do it myself when I shall have arrived at- ? 
Pará.* : 
* This task of dividing the specimens for the subscribers is, I trust, n0W - 
generally understood, confided to Mr Wm. Pamplin, jun, 9, Queen 
Street, Soho, London.— Eo. ; $ 
