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to seven thousand specimens, is already in our possession ; so that 

 such members as send in their subscriptions early enough, may, if 

 they desire it, receive a dividend of Cape specimens for 1828 to be 

 added to their shares for 1827. 



3. Two travellers, both of them students of pharmacy, vi^ill be 

 sent to Norway, and are to depart in April next. One of them has 

 been preparing himself for some years for a journey in pursuit of 

 objects of natural history in that country; he is likewise well ac- 

 quainted with the Northern Flora, and an ardent Muscologist : the 

 other, possessing considerable mineralogical experience, will direct 

 his attention chiefly to the collection of Norwegian fossils ; but he 

 is also no novice in botany, and well acquainted with Lichens and 

 Algoe ; for which reasons this journey is likely to promise a rich har- 

 vest of that tribe of plants. 



Thus we may presume that this undertaking, which is to be ex- 

 tended into Lapland, will prove no less interesting than the Southern 

 expeditions ; since Norway has not, upon the whole, been much fre- 

 quented for similar purposes. We therefore invite the assistance, 

 for the year 1828, of all friends to botany, and also every minera- 

 logist, who are desirous of obtaining in a safe manner and at a mo- 

 derate premium the singular fossils of Norway, — a country so remark- 

 able in a geognostic and oryctognostic point of view. The amount 

 of a single subscription is 15 florins (30 shilUngs sterling). Mine- 

 ralogists who desire to become members, are requested when they 

 remit (postage paid) their subscriptions, to mention, at the same time, 

 the average form or size of which they wish their specimens to be ; 

 and to state which specimens they desire especially to possess. 

 The friends of botany who mean to become members for the year 

 1828, are in the same manner requested to express at the time of 

 sending their subscriptions, whether they prefer receiving phaeno- 

 gamous or cryptogamous plants, or large kinds only ; whether Sar- 

 dinian or Norwegian plants are most desirable to them, or specimens 

 indiscriminately from all the different countries ; or lastly, whe- 

 ther there are any particidar natural families of which they wish to 

 have samples. The subscriptions are to be remitted either to the 

 Central Institute of the (Economical Society at Stuttgard, or to one 

 or other of the undersigned, but always postage paid. For receiving 

 their respective shares, the members have to pay nothing further, ex- 

 cept the charges incurred for transmitting them from this place to their 

 respective addresses ; and it is left to their own option to point out the 

 safest and least expensive channel by which they are to be sent. 



(Signed) Professor Hochstettek. 



Dr. Steudel. 

 Esslingen in Wurtenberg, Dec. 20th, 1 827. 



