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was expected again to touch on that coast. Owing however to the 

 death of the captain, the opportunity did not present itself ; and 

 the crossing the wild and inhospitable mountains of New Albion 

 was too formidable an undertaking for him in the circumstances in 

 which he was placed. Mr. Douglas was consequently detained in 

 California a second season, which he spent in various excursions 

 into the interior, North and South of the settlement, and finally 

 left Monterey in the month of August, 1832, for the Sandwich 

 Islands. From thence he dispatched to this country his Californian 

 herbarium and seeds, and afterwards returned to the Columbia 

 River. 



Mr. Douglas appears to have applied himself with the same zeal, 

 as during his former expedition, to the making and forwarding to 

 the Society such collections as might best contribute to its objects ; 

 but considerable difficulties have arisen in the means of transmis- 

 sion. The seeds and roots sent by sea suffered much from the 

 length of the voyage, during which it was also necessary twice to 

 cross the equator, and to pass alternately through the extremes of 

 heat and cold ; and some of the overland dispatches never reached 

 England, having been, it is feared, lost amidst the confusion to 

 which the troubled state of Mexico had given rise. However, one 

 package in particular, dispatched from Monterey, and one from the 

 Columbia River, arrived safely and in good condition ; and about 

 sixty species of plants, more or less useful or ornamental, have 

 been raised from these seeds in the Society's garden. 



Of the former description the most remarkable are several species 

 of Pinus, likely to prove valuable additions to our stock of timber- 

 trees, but as these are still necessarily too young for description 

 from the living specimens, it will be sufficient at present to men- 

 tion the names of P. Sabiniana, monticola, amabilis, nobilis, grandis, 

 insignis, and Menziesii, given to them by Mr. Douglas. 



Amongst the ornamental plants the following new species have 



