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As to the botanical exploration of Tibet by British travellers, 
I take the western limits of Tibet in a geographical (orographical) 
sense and as they are marked on English maps, and do not include 
Ladak and Little Tibet. It does not seem that the Brothers 
Schlagintweit, who from 1854—58 explored the Western Provinces 
of ia, also visited Tibet 
In the introduction to Hooke er & Thomson's Flora T nah A dues 
it is stated that the French traveller Jaequemont, who bo 
in the N. W. Himalaya, visited Tibet, and that auber RE 
Winterbottom, in 1848, travelled there. They made an excursion 
to id bes which are the Sources of the Indus, as is repor ted in 
Hooker's Kew Journ. Boi. v1. (1854) 348. Mr. Lance is stated to 
R 'solfdeted plants in Kashmir and Tibet. His collection was 
communicated through Edgeworth. This is about all I know. 
ihesa reg 
I have, TE course, seen all the interesting papers regarding 
recent British explorers in "Tibet,— Pratt, SAU. Littledale, 
Rockhill, Wellby, Malcolm, Deasy, Pike, Hobson, etc. 
As Mr. Franchet reports in Bull. Mus. d Hist. sien I. (1895) 191, 
the Museum at Paris received a collection of plant Minden by 
nd anterin French € Dutreuil de Rhi on the 
western border of Tibet near Lake Pan ng-kong, a and on n die ierg 
siec from the lake to Keria and Aksay in Eastern Turkes 
Lake Pun ng-kong was probably visited earlier by British voilofióte 
opem Winterbottom). 
et me notice here that Dutreuil de Rhins sent his first botanical 
polite made in Chinese Turkestan to General vieni 
Governor of Ferghana, the well-known promoter of ural 
science in Turkestan, who forwarded the plants to the Botanic 
Garden, St. Petersburg. From this collection Mr. Winkler 
described in Acta Horti Petrop. XIII. (1894) 245, a novelty : 
Saussurea amblyophylla. 
will be interested to know that Mr. Korjinski has taken 
Maximowicz. is o o e three Chief Botanists or 
Assistants of the E OE of the Botanic Garden, and holds the 
post merly SOM by Maximowicz. He is a very able 
form 
systematic bota 
The Botanic lat is now in possession of a vast collection of 
plants made in Northern Mongolia during the summers from 1895 
to 1897, by Mrs. Elizabeth Klements. This zealous and energ -— 
ary o 
search of stone monuments with inscriptions of the ancient Turks 
who lived in these d more than a thousand years ago. e 
-couple Klementz are now about to start for a scientific expedition 
to Turfan 
Mr. Lips, a young Russian botanist of great promise, is now 
