SCHULTES'S BOTANICAL VISIT TO ENGLAND. 



It is by no means our intention in the present work, as we have 

 elsewhere stated, to confine ourselves to the giving scientific and 

 systematic descriptions of plants, together with the histories of those 

 species which are valuable in an ceconomical point of view. A part 

 of our pages will be devoted to botanical information and notices, 

 and even to translations from foreign publications, where we may 

 think these calculated to interest and instruct ; for it has been a 

 subject both of regret and inconvenience to us, that in our country 

 no botanical journal is published, though it gave origin to one which 

 may well serve as a model for a future work of the kind, namely, 

 Konig and Sims's Annals of Botany, of which two volumes appeared 

 about twenty years ago. We possess many original memoirs con- 

 nected with our favourite science ; and with these, and the aid of our 

 friends, we trust that the present publication may, in some measure, 

 supply the deficiency of a more regular journal. We have selected 

 among other matter for this present Number, a subject which cannot 

 fail to be interesting to our countrymen ; namely, the opinions which 

 ' a learned German and Naturalist has been led to form upon the 

 Botany, Botanists, and Scientific Institutions of the Metropolis, and 

 some other parts of England, which he visited in 1824. These are 

 published in the Botanische Zeitung for 1825, and are the substance 

 of a letter, addressed from London by Dr. Schultes, a Professor of 

 Landshut in Bohemia, to the celebrated Naturalist, Count Sternberg. 

 We must not be supposed, however, to assent to all that our 

 author has said, either in regard to the objects which he saw, or to 

 the views which he has been led to entertain of different persons 

 and their actions. The shortness of his stay in England, and 

 the circumstance of his obtaining information only through the 



