THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF ARABIA. 
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Edgeworth. M. F.— Two hours’ Herbomation at Aden. Journ. 
As. Soc. Bengal XVI, 1211. 
1846. — Piimrd collected in Arabia Petrsea in 1840. PlantB at Kew. 
S846. — Ititter, Marl (1779-1859). — Professor of (Geography. His publi- 
cations contain a great nuinbor of references to iiatural history. . 
Eitter, M. — Erdkunde von Asien. pt. XII (1840) and ])t. Xlll 
(1847) contain Arabia, pts. 14-17 the Sinai Peiiinsula, Palestine 
and Syria. — Vol. XIII gives a long treatise (98 pages) on the Date- 
palm. 
In 1852 Ritter published a revised map of Arabia. 
I84t. — Elaiiche, J. — Vice Consul of France at Tri})oli, collected plants 
in various parts of Syria and went even to Palmyra. 
PueS, Timothec et Alphonse Maille.^Catalogue de I’licrbier de 
Syrie publie par J. Blanche et C. Daillardot (nn. 1-50). Paris, 
1854. 
I84t. — Cole, C. 8. — Account of an Overland Journey from Jjcskairee 
to Maskat and the ‘ Green Mountains ’ of Oman. J’rans. Bomb. 
Geogr. Soc. VIII, 1847. 
I84t. — Pesvergers, N. — Arabic. Paris, [847. 
I84t. — llookeF, Sir Joseph Paltoo (1817-1911). On his route to India 
in December 1847 he remained two days in Aden, where he made 
an extensive collection of plants. From Madras lie wrote home j 
“ I have lost nearly all my collections (]>articularly that made at 
Aden) ^rom the salt water in our wretched dormitory on board the 
ship.” For his second visit to Aden, see under T. 'riiomson. 
“ Extracts from the private letters of Dr. Hooker, written during 
a botanical Mission to India.” Hooker’s London Journ. of Bot. 
VII (1848) 307-314. 
H4I. — MiaisFo, WlllmiM (1818-80). — General 39th Regiment. Collected 
in India and (1870-5) Barbados ; at Aden in 1847. Plants at Kew. 
I§48. — Carter, Heiafy John (1813-1895) of the Bombay Medical Service. 
He was naturalist and geologist to the Arabian Coast Survey under 
Capt. Sanders. 
Carter, M, — The Frankincense tree of Arabia (Boswellia papyri- 
fera), Journ. Bomb. Br. As. Soc. II (1848) 380. 
Carter, M. J* — Memoir on the Geology of the South-east (’oast 
of Arabia. Journ. Bomb. Br. As. Soc. IV (1852) 21-90. 
Boswellia Carteri Birdwood in Linn. Trans. XXVII, 143. 
1849.^ — FIgarl, Aatonlo, a disciple of Dom. Viviani. — Sent exsiccata of 
Sinai of the year 1849 to Kew m 1886 (ex Museo Florentiao). 
He also collected at Mecca. 
