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Valdivia some years ago, will prove, I trust, yet more accept- 
able, and afford materials sufficient to form an article in your 
Botanical Journal. 
In a few days I intend to leave Coquimbo, and ascend the 
valley of * Elque,” to the verge of the snow; and there it is 
probable I may add many interesting plants to my collection. 
Vegetation now wears a burnt-up appearance along the coast, 
Spring being of brief duration in these warm latitudes, so 
that it is necessary to pursue my botanical researches on the 
elevated mountains of the Andes. After my return to Co- 
quimbo from the Cordillera, I shall then take the road for 
Valparaiso, passing through Andacolla, Illapel, and Petorea; 
thence, descending the valley of Aconcagua, and going through 
Quillota, I shall reach, I expect, Valparaiso about the 15th 
or 20th of January. Immediately after my arrival, I intend 
to form the various collections for yourself and others, which 
you may therefore look for about April or May. 
Hoping to hear from you when I get to Valparaiso, whence 
I shall have the honour of writing to you, I am, &c. 
: Tuomas BRIDGES. 
Biographical Sketch of the late ALLAN CoNNINGHAM, Ese. 
F.L.S. M.R.G.S. &c. Se, by Roserr Hewarp, Esa. 
F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 128.) 
Of the homeward bound passage Mr. Cunningham thus writes 
to a friend in Sydney :—* After a voyage of twenty weeks from 
Port Jackson, we last night (July 9th), made the Scilly Isles, 
off the Land's End, and this morning (10th), when off the 
Lizard Point, running up the coast, were boarded by an Isle 
of Wight pilot, who among other local news, told us that a 
convict ship was daily expected at Portsmouth to receive her 
prisoners for the Colony. I therefore, sit down, while we are 
running up channel before the breeze, to give you a few brief 
lines, although really I have as yet not much to say to you, 
