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shares could not, consequently, receive a double number of 

 species; but they have been indemnified by a selection of 

 superior specimens and by numerous duplicates. Indeed, we 

 wish it to be generally understood, that the Flora of the 

 Pyrenees has much in common with that of the Alps, and 

 that, therefore, many kinds which have been already for- 

 warded to the Members of the Unio, will not be again 

 collected. 



" Besides the produce of the Pyrenaean journey, we have, 

 we trust, definitively arranged with a Botanist at Schuschi, in 

 Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus and towards the confines 

 of Persia, who will be employed in collecting for us during the 

 present and following years. In the present season he will 

 direct his attention to the plants of Bieberstein' s Flora Taurico- 

 Caucasica. The specimens already sent, as a sample, show 

 the interesting character of the vegetation of those regions, 

 and some of the species appear to be different from any 

 described by Bieberstein. 



" We now recommend both these undertakings to the 

 Members of the Society ; and it is earnestly requested that 

 the subscriptions will be forwarded at an early period : for, 

 on the one hand, it is essential that Mr. Endress be furnished 

 with the whole sum to be expended on his journey previously 

 to his reaching the Hautes Pyrenees ; so, on the other hand, 

 as only from 50 to 60 sets of the Georgian plants are ordered, 

 the Members will be supplied according to the dates of their 

 subscriptions. The subscription for the Georgian plants is 

 only 15 florins (about 30 shillings) for each share; that 

 for the collection of Pyrenaean plants, as before announced. 



" For the year 1832, we are anxious to plan a journey to 

 Algiers; presuming that the French Government will still 

 maintain the dominion over that northern part of Africa: and 

 we have the certain prospect of a Collector from the Unio 

 Itineraria meeting with every encouragement towards the 



natural for a collector, destitute of the means of examination and comparison, 

 to gather some plants as novel or scarce, which, on a closer investigation and 

 under more favourable circumstances, he may find to be not uncommon." 



