THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF ARABIA. 
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Jidda. Without exaggeration he can be called the greatest explorer 
in Arabia. Even the botanist will find very much of interest. 
Doughty, C. M. — Travels in Arabia Deserta. 2 vols. Cambridge, 
1888. 
Many new editions, reprints, cheaper editions and one-volume 
editions have appeared in the meantime. 
Doughty, C. Mo — Wanderings in Arabia ; being an abridgment 
of “ Travels in Arabia Deserta”, with introduction by E. Garnett. 
2 vols. 1908. 
Fairley, K. — C. M, Doughty, a critical study. 1927. 
Hogarth, D. G. — The life of C. M. Doughty. London, 1928. 
081f5. — Marchesetti, €. von (died in 1883). — Director of the Natural 
ITistory Museum and Botanical Gardens at Trieste, visited Aden at 
least three times, 1875, 1880 and 1881. When on a tour to China he 
had an attack of sunstroke in the Island of Pulo Penang and was 
obliged to return to Europe in 1881. In spite of his weakened condi- 
tion he disembarked at Aden in order to visit a small valley which 
was well known to him for harbouring certain interesting plants. 
Provided with a lantern and helped by a splendid moon, it did not 
take him long to find what he wanted. But his nightly expedition 
amongst the. rocks in the immediate vicinity of the fortifications 
roused the suspicions of a sentry and von Marchesetti was arrested 
as a Russian spy. It was only with great difficulty and after many 
explanations that he at last succeeded in being set at liberty. 
Marchesetti, C« voe, — E in Ausflug nach Aden, (Esterr. Bot. 
Zeitschr. (1881) no. 1, 
Life and work of von Marchesetti. CEsterr. Bot. Zeitschr. XXXIII 
(1883) 1-8. 
1815. — Sprenger, A. — Die Alte Geographic Arabiens. Bern, 1875. 
181®* — Floyer, Ernest Aiscouth. — Collected on the Persian Gulf. Plants 
at Kew. 
1 81®. — Muntze, Dtto (Died 1907). — He came to Aden on the 9th January 
1876 towards the end of his scientific tour round the world (1874-76). 
He stopped there only for three hours and collected 29 specimens 
of phanerogamic plants which, later on, he embodied in his * Revisio 
Generum Plantarum ’ . 
Muiitze, D. — Um die Erde. Reiseberichte eines Naturforschers. 
2 ikI ed. Leipzig, 1888. 
1811. — Collins, James. — There is a note in the Proceedings of the 
Linnean Soc. (1876-77, p. XXIV) saying: “Dr. Trimen, F.L.S., 
exhibited specimens of the Olibanum, or Frankincense-tree, Boswellk 
