THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF ARABIA. 
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an expedition to explore Arabia, Persia and India. Having lost his 
four companions by death and after finisliing a great amount of geo- 
graphical work he returned to ( 'openliageu in 1807. He jnjblished the 
following books of a high standard and fidl of information, also 
botanical, on Yemen in spe(dal and Ara])ia in general : 
^lehulir, K. — Beschreibung von Arabien. Kopeidiagen, 1772. 
Xiebuhr, K. — Reisebeschreibung nacdi Arabien und andern 
umliegenden Landern. 2 vols. Kojienhagen, 1774-78. 
Xiebsiiir, M. — Description de rArabie, faite sur les observations 
propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux momes, 25 planches, 
U74. 
iXielmhr, K. — Description de PArabie. 2 vols. 1779. 
\iebiihr, K»- — Voyage en Arabic et en d’autres ])ays de 1’ Orient 
avec r extrait de sa description de P Arabic et des observations de 
Forskal. 2 vols. 1780. 
For his edition of ForskaPs works see under Forskal. 
It was only in 1837 that all Niebuhr's own observations were 
published in a final edition of the latter part of this his original 
narrative. 
Xiebuhr, Carsteii. — Travels through Arabia, translated into English 
by Robert Heron. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1792. 
tKTlZ. — PiNri, — There are plants in the Brit. Museum . with the label 
‘ Pietri flora arabica ’ of the year 1772. 
n80.— Y rwiii, E. — Voyage a la Mer Rongt>, sur le cotes de PArabie, en 
Egypte et dans les deserts ae la Thebaide, suivi d’un autre de Venise 
a Bassorah, par les deserts de PArabie, Alep, Bagdad et le Tygre, 
1780-81. 1792. Translated from the 2nd English edition by Parrand. 
1783.— Ferrieres — Saiivebociifo — Memoires historiques et geographiques 
des voyages faits en Turquie, en Perse et en Arabie, 1782-89. 2 vols. 
Maes trie ht, 1790. 
1788. — Cloupet. — Nouveau Voyage dans PArabie Heureuse en 1788. 
Paris, 1810. 
1789. — ^jiraiidpre, L. de. — Reise jiach Indien und Arabien in den Jahren 
1789-90. Translated from the French. Berlin, 1802. 
1803. — Annesley, CHeorge, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, Viscount Valent ia 
(1769-1844). 
.‘innesley, Cl.— -Voyages and travels in India, the Red Sea, Abyssi- 
nia and Egypt in 1802-06. 3 vols. London, 1809. vol. 4 (plates) 
London, 1811. 
|807.-— .ill Key al~’Abbasi. — Perhaps a spy of Napoleon. He landed at 
Jidda in 1807 and went to Mecca. When on the way to Medina he 
