282 Dr, Hooker on American Botany. 
the hands of Mr. Lambert, contains plants gathered by the 
Russians in the Aleutian isles ; and De Candolle has published, 
in his Prodromus, some interesting individuals, communicated 
by Dr. Fischer from the same neighbourhood. 
More ample materials may confidently be looked for from 
the following sources :—The great attention already bestowed 
we have Bee the assurance of the distinguished commander 
of the expedition himself, in the last letter which we received 
from him, dated Whale Fish Islands, July 1, that no exertion 
should be wanting on his part to secure every species of ie 
that may be met with in the course of the voyage. 
The Horticultural Society of London have despatched one 
of their most able collectors to the mouth of the Columbia, 
David Douglas, who was formerly one of the head gardeners 
at the Glasgow botanical garden. He had, immediately pre- 
vious to his. being sent on the present expedition, done him- 
self great credit, and given his employers the highest satis- 
faction, during his mission to the United States, for the ~ 
pose of. procuring planis and fruits for the society. His 
dertaking is now a far more arduous one, and one in which 
we know that no exertions on his part will be wanted to bring 
it to.a successful issue. After spending the ensuing season 
in collecting on the north-west coast, through nearly ten de- 
grees of latitude, he will cross the Rocky Mountains in lat. 
55°, and fall in with Captain Franklin’s line of route at Isle 
de la Crosse, and-return overland with that enterprising offi- 
cer to Hudson’s Bay. 
The Hudson’s Bay Company, with a liberality that reflects 
the highest credit upon them, made application and provision 
for a surgeon to one of their ships, who, to his medical know- 
ledge should have added. the acquirement of natural history, 
particularly of botany. It was our good fortune to have in 
view, at the period when the application was made to us, a 
young man every way qualified for such a situation, Mr. 
oat epaerenonn tis one of our ablest botanical students. 
or the north-west coast of America in the 
pe of July a this year (1824,) and will be absent alto- 
° ther two year 
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