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Das KONIGLICHE HERBARIUM zw MÜNCHEN geschildert. (Sketch of 
the Royan, HERBARIUM at Munich.) | By Dr. C. F. Ph. von Martius. 
Translated from the German in the Gelehrten Anzeigen, Bd. xxxi. 
No. 89-93 [separately printed at Munich 1850] ; by N. WALLICH, 
MD, FRS, V.P.LS. 
The Royal Herbarium at Munich was founded in the year 1813, 
when H.M. King Maximilian Joseph I. caused the scientific property 
of the late President of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists and 
Professors at Erlangen, Dr. J. C. Dan. von Schreber (born 1739 and 
deceased 1811*), to be purchased for the Royal Academy of Sciences, 
which thereby became possessed of a rich library, valuable zoological 
and mineralogical collections, and an herbarium, which, on account of 
the high reputation of its late owner, deserves to be considered as a 
worthy foundation for a botanical museum. 
The chief part of the Schreberian Herbarium was arranged, though 
not catalogued, according to the owner’s edition of the ‘Genera Planta- 
rum’ of Linnæus. Inclusive of a number of unadjusted packages of 
specimens, it consisted of about 12,000 species. Besides the plants 
collected by Schreber himself, at Leipzig, Upsala (where he had been a 
pupil of Linnæus), and at Erlangen, both wild and cultivated, the her- 
barium received valuable additions from celebrated botanists,—such as 
O. Swartz, Georgi, Pallas, Mühlenberg, Rôttler, J. R. Forster, Von Wul- 
fen, Thunberg, Vahl, and others. Schreber had collected zealously and 
largely Grasses and Cyperaceæ. He acquired possession of Güldenstádt's 
entire herbarium, in which there are numerous plants gathered by this 
naturalist in Georgia, Mingrelia, and the Caucasian Steppes (see his 
Voyage through Russia and the Caucasian Mountains ; St. Peters | 
1787,4to). Schreber had, besides, purchased the collections of Schmie- — 
del, his predecessor in the chair of botany; which, however, he only very 2 
partially incorporated in his own herbarium. Pre-eminent for rarity and 
interest in the Schmiedelian collection, is a series of Cape of Good Hope - 
and Ceylon specimens, obtained from his friend and correspondent during 
many years, N. L. Burmann, professor at Amsterdam. With the said 
collection came also one made in North America by Schópf, medical 
* For a further account of this celebrated man, see p. 118 of the preceding volume — 
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