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kinds, (including a few varieties, and some 
uropean ones, that are cultivated as 
oziers, or otherwise,) arrahged in nine 
natural groupes; and it gives us much 
pleasure to find that the collection made 
during Capt. Sir John Franklin’s expedi- 
tion, the whole of which, so far, at least, as 
the specimens would allow of it, he has been 
good enough to determine for us, has af- 
forded several new species to the Ameri- 
can Flora. Many of the North American 
species are eminently deserving of cultiva- 
tion, on account of the beauty of their cat- 
kins 2 paie um id pastigulasly some of 
f merica; 
and we confidently hope that Dr. Gairdner, 
who now resides at Fort Vancouver, and 
Mr. Tolmie, who is stationed in a most 
interesting spot, namely, at Fort M‘Lough- 
in, in Millbank Sound, lat. 52° 6’ N., will 
enrich our collections with many novelties 
from that rich botanical field. 
But it is impossibf® to revert to the 
Natural History of the Pacific side of 
North America, without recollections of 
a most painful kind. It is become the 
duty of one, who has, for a period of six- 
teen years, taken the most lively interest 
in the welfare of Mr. David Douglas, now 
to record the circumstance of his death— 
cut off in the prime of life, at Oahn, one of 
the Sandwich islands, by an accident, which 
has already been mentioned in the public 
prints; and this, at a period, when his 
friends were expecting to welcome his 
return to his native country, after an ab- 
sence of many years which have been de- 
voted, and with the most unexampled per- 
severance and success, to furthering the 
cause of Science in distant, and, pre- 
viously, little explored countries. It was, 
indeed, intended by the writer of this 
brief notice, that these very pages should 
have contained some account of Mr. Doug- 
las's adventures and discoveries during his 
two first voyages and travels; for the more 
satisfactory execution of which, the Horti- 
cultural Society of London, with a readi- 
ness and kindness, (for which he here begs 
to express his grateful acknowledgments, ) 
had entrusted him with the whole of his 
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journals in their possession, Any fur- 
ther notice of this lamented traveller and 
naturalist will now be necessarily deferred 
until the arrival of his Collections and M 
which are daily expected by H.M.S. Chal- 
lenger. Suffice it to say at this time, that Mr. 
Douglas's friends are under the greatest 
obligations to R. T. Charlton, Esq. H.B.M. 
Consul, at the Sandwich Islands, and Chas. 
Ryde Rooke, Esq. acting Consul in Mr. 
Charlton's absence, for the lively interest 
they have taken in the affairs of our unfor- 
tunate and deeply regretted countryman. 
In the Second Series of the Bot. Misc. 
vol. 1. p. 176, we gave a brief notice of 
Mr. Mathews's indefatigable exertions in 
the cause of Peruvian Botany; and, we 
stated that, in the month of August, 1833, 
he was on the point of setting out for the 
interior of Huanuco, in the tenth degree 
of South latitude, where Ruiz and Pavon 
thered so many of their interesting 
plants ;! but this journey was, for a while, 
! Nothing 
A É— 
, however, could be 
first vis 
R ing at Huanuco,” says the historian of 
Ruiz, ‘‘ dli the 10th of June, 1785, he departed again 
more unfortunate 
sit of these celebrated botanists. 
new disciples, one a bo 
falla,the other adraughtsman, Don Francisco Pulgar. 
During his stay at Huanuco, he collected new ma- 
terials in its vicinity with his acc 
perseverance. He proceeded to Chinc 
ing one Chulqui, and = Pampa * p deemed 
Tambo de Paty, and in the Hacienda of Macora 
Here he made a rich clin o of Piper Ee 
small birds, barks, gums, , often losing 
himself in these dense woods, ind i often suffering 
from the Mal del Mayco, a terrible disorder, which 
had already attacked him at Poyuzo, and which abso- 
€ incapacitates the patient from any kind of 
lab ade enquiries to trace the origin of 
this severe malady, and ascertained that it was occa- 
sioned by the shade of two species of Schinus 
the 6th of August, he dispatched to Hiashi te 
specimens of rare trees, that they might idi dried 
to Lima, and from thence to Spain, and a packet of 
the coffee which he discovered in these mountains. 
Returning, however, to Macora, he found the place 
reduced to ashes unfortunate conflagration 
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