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paid a hasty visit to England and Scotland in last autumn, and collected 

 so great a number of living plants, (above 4000,) that he engaged Mr 

 Goklie of the Monkwood Nursery, near Ayr, to take charge of them dur- 

 ing the voyage, and to assist in their transplantation. This was success- 

 fully accomplished, and on Mr Goldie's quitting St Petersburgh in Octo- 

 ber, the whole collection was in a most thriving condition. 



We have inquired in vain for correct information respecting the state 

 of this noble institution, since the late inundations of the Neva, but we 

 can hear nothing certain. We dare not flatter ourselves with the expec- 

 tation that it can have escaped without severe, very severe injury ; but we 

 do earnestly hope that the report which has been circulated, respecting its 

 utter destruction, will prove to be as much exaggerated as those early ac- 

 counts which we received of the loss of lives and of property by the same 

 dreadful calamity. 



It is satisfactory to be able to announce, that Dr Fischer has provided 

 very extensive materials for the publication of a Flora Rossica. His 

 long residence in Moscow, and the great intercourse which subsists be- 

 tween the Eastern and Southern parts of Russia and that city, gave him 

 facilities in obtaining possession of plants which no other naturalist has 

 had the means of acquiring. No stranger, it is well known, can explore 

 any part of Russia, with a view to science, without express permission 

 from the Emperor, and this is not easily obtained. But strict orders have 

 been given for the plants to be collected by those resident in the respec- 

 tive districts, throughout every part of the Russian dominions, and to be 

 transmitted to the new garden. Besides which, collectors are to be sent 

 purposely into Siberia, and other remote parts of the empire, at the ex- 

 pence of Government. 



Intelligence from Austria. 



By a letter which we have just received from Professor Jacquin of Vien- 

 na, we learn that the Fasciculi 3d and 4th of his " Eclogw" have been 

 published ; and that some more Fasciculi yet will appear in the course of 

 the prtsent year. 



The Botanical Public have long been in expectation that Dr Host, au- 

 thor of the superb work entitled Gramiiia Austriaca, would publish a 

 Monograph, on a similar plan, of the Salices of Austria. We have the 

 pleasure of being able to state, that the first volume of this publication, 

 containing 100 coloured plates, will appear during the present year. It 

 will be completed in two volumes, comprising 250 plates. The same author 

 is engaged in preparing a new Flora Austriaca, to serve as a second edition 

 of his Synopsis. 



M. Pohl has ready for publication, a numerous collection of drawings 

 of Brazilian Plants, and M. Schott of Ferns, from the same country. 



Intelligence from North America. 

 In addition to the information which we gave in our last Number relative 

 to American Botany, we have the satisfaction of being able to state, that 





