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XXXVI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 
MEXICAN FLORA. 
Ar the last anniversary sitting of the Helvetic Society of Na- 
tural Science, M. de Candolle presented to the Society a Flora 
of Mexico, consisting of 1740 leaves, and forming 13 large folio 
volumes. The following account of this work is given in the 
Morgenblatt, published at Stutgard:—-MM., Sesse, Mocino and 
Cervantes had travelled over New Spain, with the view of col- 
lecting a Mexican Flora. They made a drawing of each plant 
on the spot where they found it. M. Mocino had returned to 
- Madrid, in order to have the drawings thus obtained engraved, 
when the first troubles in Spain obliged him to seek refuge with 
his Flora at Montpelier. M. de Candolle, who was then at 
Montpelier, became acquainted with M. Mocino, and assisted 
him for eighteen months in arranging systematically his numerous 
collection. M. de Candolle afterwards went from Montpelier to 
Geneva, and M. Mocino gave him the Flora along with him, that 
he might one day send it forth to the world. The new aspect of 
affairs in Spain having induced M. Mocino, however, to return to 
his native country, he wrote lately to M. de Candolle, requesting 
to have the Flora back. The French naturalist, unwilling to 
run the chance of losing all trace of so valuable a treasure, im- 
mediately requested some friends to copy part of the rarest 
drawings for him. No sooner was this known in Geneva, than 
numbers of persons of both sexes offered their services; and in 
the end every person capable of managing a crayon or a pencil 
was occupied with the Mexican Flora, They worked with such 
zeal, the ladies especially, that in the short space of eight days 
there was not a single drawing remaining to copy. 
NEW SHETLAND. ! 
Several vessels have been to this newly discovered southern 
land, and have returned with good cargoes of very fine seal-skins, 
The John of London, Captain Walker, brought home 12,000. 
The extent of country explored from east to west, from Clarence 
Isle to Smith’s Cape, is from 54 to 64 degrees west longitude, and- 
from 61 to 64 degrees south latitude, and the land seen so the 
southward, as far as the eye can reach, The country already 
explored consists of numerous islands, without a vestige of vege- 
tation. A species of moss only is found upon the rocks near the 
shore; eternal snows covering the more remote parts, which are 
mountainous. Although nature, in those regions, assumes. the 
inost sterile and forbidding features, the thermometer was at no 
time below the freezing point; but the melting snows near the 
shore 
