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APPENDIX 



TO 



THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The following is a detailed account of the botanical explorations in 

 New Mexico and California, referred to in the report:* 



Mr. Lindheimer was sent to Texas, and an account of hi? collections 

 was published in the Boston Journal of Natural History, vol. 5. They 

 were made in lS43-'4, near Houston, and west of the Colorado, and 

 have long since been distributed to subscribers. 



His collections made further west, at New Braunfels, and in excursions 

 in the dangerous regions westward, on the Llanos, k.V:.c., in 1S15-'S, are 

 now in course of study by Dr. Gray and Dr. Engleaian. The sets will 

 soon be distributed to the subscribers. It is desirable that the Smithso- 

 nian Institution should become a subscriber. The sets at furthest will 

 comprise not more than five hundred species, which, at $*8 per hun- 

 dred specimens, will amount to ;jp40. 



Mr. Augustus Fendler was sent to Santa Fe in August, 1846, passed 

 the winter there, and explored the country around until August, 1847, 

 when he was obliged to return. (See memoir on his collections, published 

 in the Memoirs of the American Academy, vol. 3, new series.) The 

 fuller sets of these plants have all been disposed of. The largest on hand 

 contains only two hundred and five species, which the Secretary has taken 

 for the Smithsonian Institution at the usual price of $1(J per hundred 

 specimens. 



Next, aided by advances from a citizen of Boston interested in encour- 

 aging these scientific investigations, who advances $200 a year f-»r three 

 years, Mr. Fendler was provided with the necessary outfit, and, with his 

 brother as an assistant, was sent to explore the great interior valley be- 

 tween the Rocky mountains and California, to make his headquarters at the 

 Mormon city on Utah lake, and explore the surrounding regions— espcrially 

 the country south and southeast between that place and Santa Fe, which 

 is entirely new ground, and bids fair to be of great interest. Meetmg 

 with an accident near Fort Kearny, on his way out, which destroyed 

 much of his paper and other indispensable equipments, with a part ol his 

 mules, he has, as I learn from accounts received, been obliged to turn 

 back to Independence, and is now refitting, in the hope still of reachmg 

 his ground this autumn, so as to begin his researches early next sprmg. 

 If the Smithsojiian Institution would subscribe to this enterprise the same 

 as the private gentleman of Boston referred to, or Ivdf that sum, it would 

 aftbrd very important— indeed, I must now say, almost indispensable- 

 assistance; and it would receive, in return, an equivalent share ot the 



This it.farmalion is from Dr. Gray, of Cambridge. 



