362 Information respecting Botanical Travellers. 



try must be obtained by making numerous presents to Prince Ubie 

 and his subaltern officers, petty chieftains, &c. The cost of travel- 

 ling with goods to the Red Sea is likewise very heavy. Some little 

 provision has been already made, according to our former request, 

 to meet these expenses ; and here we beg to tender our thanks for 

 the promptitude with which many of the members of the Unio have 

 come forward, so that (including a contribution from our Govern- 

 ment to the amount of 300 florins) we have already been enabled to 

 devote 6000 florins to the object of this journey. About 2000 florins 

 more will probably be required, and we therefore particularly look 

 to those members of the Unio who have as yet contributed nothing 

 on this occasion, or only subscribed the simple and customary sum 

 of 30 florins, and earnestly request that they will now come forward 

 with contributions of money. Such friends of botany and well- 

 wishers to our cause as have not yet been connected with this insti- 

 tution, we beg to inform that by subscriptions of 30, 60, 90, 1 20, 

 and 130 Rhenish florins (65, 130, 195, 260, and 300 francs) they 

 may look to receive (if no peculiar disaster occurs) respectively 

 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1200 species of dried plants from Abyssinia, 

 or other natural productions, for details respecting which we must 

 refer them to our printed appeal of January of this year. The many 

 novelties that rewarded Schimper's journey in Arabia, particularly 

 the province of Hedsches, entitle us to entertain high expectations 

 from his labours in Abyssinia. We particularly recommend the sub- 

 ject of Schimper's journey to the attention of the friends of natural 

 science who are to meet this month at Fribourg, and only regret 

 that we cannot personally attend and urge the subject. 



The present opportunity permits us to mention that some small 

 collections remain unsold from the former journeys, viz. 



1st. Arabian Plants, collections of 200 species at 30 florins (65 francs.) 



100 15 florins (33 francs.) 



2nd. N. American Plants, (Ohio district) col. of 200 spe. at 24 fl. (50 fr.) 

 3rd. Georgio-Caucasian Plants, col. of 320 species at 40 florins (86 francs.) 



200 25 florins. This is the 



fifth delivery. 



Lastly, we have undertaken the commission of disposing of col- 

 lections made from the Flora of Portugal and the Azores this summer 

 by MM. Guthrick and Hochsteller, jun., in the environs of Lisbon, 

 (the greater part however at the Azores,) during a journey which 

 these naturalists made at their own expense. Purchasers may have 

 either complete collections of 200—300 species at 12 florins (25 fr.), 

 or smaller ones of 100 to 150 species at 10 to 15 florins, the latter 



