4 FRIEDRICH WELWITSCH. 
Portugal, which has been recently announced. In 1851 a large 
number (12,000 woe ee and 6,000 Cryptogams) of specimens 
were sent to Mr. Pamplin—who had been Dr. Welwitsch’s agent ever 
Besides his botanical investigations, Dr. Welwitsch devoted con- 
siderable time to the mollusca and insects of Portugal, and formed 
large collections. 
It in 1850 that the — of Queen — Maria 
first resolved to explore the Portuguese possessions on the West 
i ith the 
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scientific pag. ohio ‘had now become generally known and appre- 
ciated throughou t Portugal, was engaged to prepare the contributions 
er ae and sympathised with his earnest desires for national 
progress the prosperity of the colonies. The King himself 
seen at etails, prepared instructions, and put the whole in 
motion. For carrying out the scientific part of his scheme, the King 
saw in Dr. Welwitsch the very man required for and 
dangerous an undertaking. He had been so long in Portugal that his 
peo were fully enlisted in the welfare and honour of his —. 
introduction to the Prince Consort. After some months spent here, 
during which he received most valuable advice as to botanical 
hone = vernment, and with id mao liberty of action. How well 
Africa is mainly derived from Dr. Welwitsch’s ‘‘ Apontamentos,” his 
published letters, and the introduction to Morelet’s emo on the 
Land and Fresh-Water Shells,” collected during the expedition— 
Mere a the benefit of Dr. Welwitsch’s supervision 
voyage from Lisbon, the Tavs) Be had the opportunity of 
seeing eiubaee the Cape Verds, S. Iago, Prince’s Island, and Sierra 
Leone; at Freetown, in the latter dianiad, he stayed nine days in 
