Dr. Hooker on American Botany. 281 
Brief and scanty as is this catalogue, we anticipate, from 
the arosty unpublished collections that have been formed, 
e various expeditions that are now sent out, or 
that are about to be so, that, in a very few years Great Bri- 
tain will be in a condition to fill up the void which exists in 
her Flora of her portion of North America. 
The herbaria at present existing, as connected with the 
plants of those countries, over and above those to which we 
have already alluded, are perhaps not very extensive. | Sir 
Joseph Banks made collections on the Labrador coast, and 
we believe that the missionaries of that territory have = 
home many plants to the Museum of their Society. 
Hamilton possesses numerous well dried plants of Newhipad. 
land, and we have ourselves opened a correspondence. with 
some gentlemen of that island, from whom much may be ex- 
ected. In Canada, besides what has been effected by Mr, 
Past, we know of several individuals who are industrious] 
engaged i in furthering the Flora of that country. and of Hud- 
son’s Bay. In the first rank of these, we are proud to be 
able to mention the Right Honourable the Countess of Dal- 
housie, the lady of his Excellency the Governor, whose rank 
and influence, no less than her superior acquirements and great 
love of science, entitle us to nave for much from her in the 
promotion of our wishes. On the sea-coast of Hudson’s Bay, 
collections made as far north as  Chaeethaid Inlet, during 
Dunean’s voyage of discovery, exist, we pees) in the Bank- 
sian Herbarium. Mr. Graham, in Foster’s time, sent plants 
as well as animals home Pi Churchill. Tilden’s plants, in 
the Sherardian Herbarium, are from Moosefactory, near the 
bottom of Hudson’s Bay. In the interior, to the eastward of 
the rocky mountains, no one has botanized but Dr. Richard- 
son, during Franklin's journey. With the fate of a large por- 
tion of that collection, and with the affecting and afflicting 
cause of it, the public are well acquainted. On the north- 
west coast, Mr. Menzies* has been the principal investigator ; 
but a Mr. Nelson, who perhaps accompanied some of the 
voyagers, who succeeded Captain Cook in the survey of that 
coast, has communicated many specimens, which are in the 
Banksian or Lambertian Herbarium. Pallas’ Herbarium, in 
* Many of eek plants have been ably described by our valued friend 
Sir J. E. Smith, President of the Linnzan Society, in the botanical part 
of Rees’s Cyclope adic. 
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