COLLECTIONS OF HAENKE AND NEF. oT 
most touching manner the enthusiasm which was characteristic of the 
collector and observer. While they were navigating the Rio Mamore 
in a canoe they discovered ina marsh bordering the river a plant so 
marvelously beautiful that Haenke fell upon his knees in worship, 
offering to the Author of so magnificent a creation a prayer of grateful 
homage. He insisted on stopping and camping at this place and left 
it with the greatest reluctance.” This was about the year 1801. The 
plant was in all probability the magnificent water lily afterwards 
described as |fetoria amazonica. 
Haenke looked forward to returning some day to Europe, but he 
was accidentally poisoned and died at Cochabama in 1817. Only + 
small proportion of his herbarium reached Europe, the greatest part 
having been sent by the authorities to Lima, where it was lost. About 
9,000 plants collected on the Malaspina expedition were sent, according 
to his wish, to the National Museum of Bohemia, at Prague. Others 
found their way to the Royal Garden at Madrid, with those of Née. 
Duplicates of these were sent to the University of Prague and the Musée 
Palatin at Vienna, and about .700 species to the Royal Herbarium at 
Munich. It was upon the collections at Prague and the notes accom- 
panying them that the Reliquizw Haenkeanw of Pres] was based.’ 
Née, who reached Cadiz in 1704, took back with him 10,000 plants, 
nearly half of which were apparently new. His herbarium, together 
with descriptive notes and drawings, belong to the Royal Garden at 
Madrid. Many of his Guam plants were described in 1802 by Cava- 
nilles;? among them are a number of ferns as well as of flowering 
plants that have not since been recognized, and no careful comparison 
has been made between the types in Madrid and material from the 
Pacific in England. 
Notes of both Née and Haenke are included in Malaspina’s official 
narrative, lying in manuscript in the archives of the Madrid hydro- 
graphic office, Malaspina shortly after his return to Spain was thrown 
into prison, suspected of revolutionary designs. The Spanish Govy- 
ernment refused to publish his narrative, and when a map appeared 
embodying the results of his explorations his name was not allowed to 
appear upon it. Humboldt speaks of this great injustice with indigr- 
nation. Malaspina was an Italian by birth. A sketch of his life is 
included in Amat di San Filipo’s Biogratia dei viaggiatori italiani, 
tome, 1881. Fora long time his manuscript history disappeared from 
view and investigations concerning it were made by the Societa Geo- 
eratica Italiana, the president of which, in his address of 1868 (Bolle- 
tino, 1868, pp. 73-74), announces its discovery in the archives of the 
hydrographic office at Madrid, and states that it is written ina great 
«A. VOrbigny, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, vol. 13, p. 99, 1840. 
bSee List of works. 
éCavanilles, Josef, Deseripeion, ete. See List of works. 
