66 THE ROYAL HERBARIUM AT MUNICH. 
officer to the Margrave-Anspach troops (see his Voyage; Erlangen, 
. 1788, two vols. 8vo), together with this industrious botanist’s im- 
portant MSS. entitled * Index Plantarum Novzboracensium.' Besides 
all this, Schreber had constantly been on the look-out, in order to 
increase his materials by exchange and purchase. He was particularly 
connected in this respect with the Moravians, and received frequent 
despatches from them from Southern Russia (Sarepta), Labrador, 
and the West and East Indies. He purchased Hoppe's Centuriæ, 
Erhart's Decades, Schrader's Cryptogams from the Harz Mountains, and 
Funck’s from the Fichtel-range ; also Schleicher's Swiss plants. The 
herbarium contains, accordingly, a considerable number of German 
plants. The southern divisions, especially the Alps of Carniola and 
Carinthia, had been closely examined by Rainer, Von Wulfen, Hoppe, 
and Frölich, from whom the collection obtained many important 
species. À. W. Roth, physician at Vegesack, who was the first to 
publish a complete Flora Germanica, presented his preceptor with 
many valuable contributions from northern Germany. Casimir Chr. 
Schmiedel, whose great services in the analysis of plants in recent 
times, have been especially acknowledged by Robert Brown, had contri- 
buted an herbarium, accumulated during his journeys in the South of 
France, Switzerland, Nizza, and Naples ; and a very interesting series 
from Monte Baldo, being the original specimens of Seguier's * Flora 
Veronensis,' is deserving of particular notice in this place. Schreber 
received some rare Spanish specimens from Gmelin; from France he 
purchased Loiseleur's collections made in the neighbourhood of Paris, 
and in botanical gardens. The flora of Siberia, though to a small 
extent only, is represented in the Schreberian Museum by contribu- 
tions from Pallas, Georgi, and Messerschmied. Some species were 
also added, probably through Gleditsch, collected by Honildeimer, 
the eompanion of Tournefort, in his voyage to the East. — 
From tropical Asia Sehreber had received some plants fob Joh. 
Gerh. Kónig, who had gone to India so far back as the year 1769, in 
the service of the Nawaub of Arcot, and had travelled far and wide 
(he died in 1785). More considerable contributions were made by the 
Danish missionaries at Tranquebar, John and Róttler,* pupils of König ; 
* T had the ha ppiness of knowing personally both these most worthy missionaries 
and ex excellent botaniste, and of} corresponding with them, With Dr. Charles John, 
I became acquainted on my visit to Tranquebar in 1807; he died not long after- 
