THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF ARABIA. 
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and in the Persian Gulf in addition to many other places. His plants 
• are at Kew. — See Kew Bulletin (1894) 397-8. 
— Kelmtsek, E, — Wine among the ancient Arabs. — Journ. Bomb. 
Br. Roy. As. Soc. 1879. 
1880. — Balfour, Sir Isaac Bailey (1853-1922). — Professor of Botany 
at Glasgow, Oxford and Edinburgh, He visited Aden in 1800 when 
on his way to Socotra. He collected a considerable number of plants 
of which there is a set of Duplicates at Kew. In the following work 
there are many references to the flora of Arabia. 
Balfour, 1. B. — Botany of Socotra. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 
XXXI. Edinburgh, 1888. 
1880. — Blunt, Lady Anne. — The wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, traveller 
and poet. They both travelled amongst the Anaze and Shammar 
tribesmen of the Hamad and Mesopotamian steppes. The Blunts 
came to Jauf in 1879. Then they went to Nejd where Lady Anne 
made a c-ollection of plants (now at Kew). 
Blunt, W. S. — A visit to Jebel Shammar (Nejd) : new routes 
through Central Arabia. 2 maps. 1879. 
Lady Anne Blunt. — A Pilgrimage to. Nejd. 2 vols. London, 
1881, with appendices by W. S. Blunt. 
1880. — Hunter, Frederick Mercer (Major). — In 1880 he collected 250 
specimens of plants in the “ neighbourhood of Aden.” 
Hunter, F. HI. — Aden Handbook. 1873. 
Hunter, F. M. — An account of the British Settlement of Aden* 
London, 1877. 
1880. — Wetzstein. — Ueber die Triiffeln im Orient. Sitzb. d. bot. Ver. 
Prov. Brandbg. XXII; Dec, 1880. 
1881. — Fischer, Theobald. — Die Dattelpalme, ihre geographische Ver- 
breitung und culturhistorische Bedentung. 2 maps. Erganzung- 
sheft no. 64 zu Petermann’s Mitteilungen Gotha, 1881. 
1881. — IflUtschmld, A, von. — Die Nabataishe Landwirtschaf und ihre 
Geschwister. Zeitschr. d. Deutschen Morgenlandischen Geseilsch. 
XV (1881) 1-110. 
1881. — Upton, IS. S>. (Major).— -Gleanings from, the dese t of Arabia. 
London, 1881. 
188!?.— Slade, Edmund John Warre (Lieut.).— Collected in Hamish 
Island in the Red Sea. Plants at Kew. 
1883-84. — Ebers, G. — Paliistina in Wort und Bild nebst der Sinaihal- 
binsel und dem Lande Gosen. 2 vols. Stuttgart, 1883-84. 
1883. — Euting, Julius (Prof.). — A Strassburg orientalist. He was en- 
couraged by the King of Wiirtemberg and General von ManteuSel to 
