608 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland, who directs that 
he shall pursue his botanical researches and draw up a 
Report on the Vegetable productions of the British Settle- 
ment of Labuan and such parts of Borneo as can safely be 
explored. tis especially his object to ascend, if possible, 
the great mountain of Keeny Baloo, supposed to be 14,000 
- feet in height. | 
Dr. Hooker embarked at Portsmouth on the 11th of No- 
vember, in H.M. Steam-frigate, * Sidon," which conveys 
His Excellency, Lord Dalhousie, to Alexandria, en route for 
Calcutta, and he may be expected to arrive there towards 
the latter end of this month, (December. Two or three . 
months will probably be devoted to investigating the plains 
of Bengal, and particularly the fossil vegetable remains in 
the coal formations of Burdwan; and then Dr. Hooker, will 
journey northward, perhaps to Sikkim; but his exact route 
must considerably depend upon circumstances which it is 
impossible yet to foresee. 
