BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 209 
“From Oeiras, I wrote pretty fully about my finances, 
and told you that I expected to receive a handsome present - 
from the person on whom I had performed the operation of 
lithotomy. I have now to inform you that before I quitted 
that place, he gave me 250 Spanish dollars, or about £50 
sterling, which I need not say came very opportunely, and 
enables me to reach Villa Rica with my present stock, where 
I trust your letters will be awaitiag me, and afford me further 
directions. In the meanwhile, I do hope that those botanists 
who have hitherto kindly:supported my mission, will still 
continue to do so, now that my collections are much more 
valuable, and obtained with such increased expense to me. 
I feel quite certain that none of these collections can be sent 
to Europe before I reach Rio de Janeiro, which will be about 
the end of July, 1840. My first business on arriving there, 
will be to divide the plants into sets, and forward them home 
with the least possible delay; and as regards myself, you may. 
expect to see me in Scotland some time in May or June of 
1841. In the commencement of that year, I intend to gather 
a large stock of living plants on the Organ Mountains, and 
elsewhere in the province of Rio, to take home in a growing 
state under my own eye. But you shall hear more of this 
hereafter." 
Notwithstanding our observation above, that we should 
confine our “ Botanical Information,” to the notice of Mr 
Gardner's Travels, we must here insert that which Dr Steu- 
del has communicated to Mr Pamplin, relative to Mr Schim- 
per's extensive Herbarium of Abyssinianplants. ‘The division — 
of the specimens is proceeding with for the subscribers as 
quickly as possible; yet, it may be another month from tbis 
time (May 1), before the first delivery of three hundred 
species, (those collected previous to the end of 1837,) can be 
made. Ofthese three hundred, one halfare hitherto unknown —__ 
to European botanists, and there are many entirely new - 
Genera among them." — TOM 
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