I have begun to compile <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e8924743-c92e-4edb-9247-43c92ecedb60" corresp="#cfe1ceea-98dd-441f-a1ce-ea98dd441fe3" type="editorialNote">Flora Arctica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="cfe1ceea-98dd-441f-a1ce-ea98dd441fe3" corresp="#e8924743-c92e-4edb-9247-43c92ecedb60" type="editorial">Vgl. <bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/3QT6778E">Hooker, J.D. 1862</bibl>.</note>, from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />combined materials of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Arctic voyages; it will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I hope form an interesting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />subject, & will be chiefly<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="2v" />remarkable for the small <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />number of Endemic species. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I am also engaged upon the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="ad98719e-d2df-4d22-9871-9ed2df9d221f" corresp="#eac66354-0dd2-4369-8663-540dd263695c" type="editorialNote">Flora of Tasmania</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="eac66354-0dd2-4369-8663-540dd263695c" corresp="#ad98719e-d2df-4d22-9871-9ed2df9d221f" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/T5SDE24E">Hooker, J. D. 1844–1860</bibl>, III.</note>, which will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />be accompanied with a sketch <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the vegetation of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002625 https://www.geonames.org/2077456">Australia</placeName><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg>.</reg> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi>. Thomson</persName> & I have finished <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the first part of our <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f0b0f46e-4de8-4ad6-b0f4-6e4de87ad61b" corresp="#e1f8cc94-6f6a-4e63-b8cc-946f6a8e63e8" type="editorialNote">Flora <lb />Indica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="e1f8cc94-6f6a-4e63-b8cc-946f6a8e63e8" corresp="#f0b0f46e-4de8-4ad6-b0f4-6e4de87ad61b" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855</bibl>, I.</note>, which contains a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />long introductory Essay on <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Physical Geography, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Botany & Meteorology of all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Provinces of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, from <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002330 https://www.geonames.org/1149361">Affghanistan</placeName> to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007396 https://www.geonames.org/1814991">China</placeName>, & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0009370 https://www.geonames.org/1279685">Tibet</placeName> to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007287 https://www.geonames.org/1227603">Ceylon</placeName> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0008607">Malacca</placeName>. I hope to have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the honor of transmitting to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />you a copy of this work <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />before many days.