28 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
part by Malaspina’s own hand. It is quite voluminous. A part of 
the narrative is said to have been published in the Anales Hidrograticos 
in L871, but no such publication can be found in the official list. The 
narrative, much abridged, finally appeared in 1885, seventy-six years 
after the death of the brave and unfortunate navigator.* For the 
most part it consists of bare statements of facts, resembling a log 
book, and has few descriptions and little detailed information concern- 
ing the countries visited. A satisfactory history of this important 
expedition still remains to be written. 
ROMANZOFF EXPEDITION, 
On the evening of November 24, 1817, the brig Purch, fitted out at 
the expense of the chancellor of the Russian Empire, Count Roman- 
zoff, for the purpose of scientific exploration, and commanded by 
Otto von Kotzebue, a lieutenant in the Russian navy, came to anchor 
in the harbor of San Luis de Apré. Attached to her were the botanist 
Adelbert von Chamisso; the naturalist Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz, 
and the artist Ludwig Choris. 
Owing to the shortness of the Au/A’s stay at Guam it was not 
possible to make extensive collections. Chamisso, however, got much 
interesting and valuable information while on the island from the 
Sargento Mayor Don Luis de Torres. To botanists, Eschscholtz’s 
name is chiefly associated with the beautiful ‘Californian poppy” 
(Eschscholtzia), named in his honor by Chamisso. 
The narrative of the expedition was published by Kotzebue, under 
the title of ‘A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Behring’s 
Straits,” etc.’ This narrative, which embodies Chamisso’s observa- 
tions, is filled with errors and misstatements. It was miserably ‘‘ done 
into English” by a translator who ‘joined to a style at once bald and 
incorrect a deplorable ignorance of his subject; hence the work 
abounds in errors of the grossest kind.”¢ Chamisso, wishing to cor- 
rect them, made out a list of errata, but no attention whatever was 
paid to him. He accordingly published his notes and journal inde- 
pendently, under the titles of *‘ Bemerkungen und Ansichten,” and 
*“Tagebuch,” in the former of which he gives comparative vocabu- 
laries of the languages of Guam, Yap, Ulea, and Radak.¢ 
In these two works a most charming personality is revealed. Cha- 
misso’s love of nature was equaled by his love for his fellow-man. He 
recognized the humanity in the simple brown-skinned natives of the 
remote islands of the Pacific, and did not consider them legitimate 
« Novo y Colson, La vuelto al mundo, ete. See List of works. 
bSee list of works. 
éQuarterly Review, vol. 26, p. 364, 1822. 
@Chamisso’s gesammelte Werke. See List of works. 
