68 THE ROYAL HERBARIUM AT MUNICH. 
of the Royal Academy, to procure a more uniform representation of 
the entire kingdom of Flora. No increase, however, was made by pur- 
chase for some years ; and we can only mention one addition, presented 
by Privy Councillor Grimm, through the instrumentality of Von Schlich- 
tegroll, Secretary to the Academy, consisting of his herbarium, collected 
-during the years 1780 to 1800. It contains some plants, which existed 
in botanical gardens during that period, but which are now out of 
cultivation altogether, or occur only seldom; and, besides, the plants 
which Grimm himself had gathered in Germany and the South of 
France. This herbarium possesses, therefore, much historical interest. 
' A considerable increase of the Academic herbarium was caused by 
_ the travels of Spix and Von Martius in the Brazils (1817-1820). This 
may be estimated at nearly 8,000 species, of which 800 were collected 
in Istria, Malta, Gibraltar, Madeira, and Portugal, and the rest in 
Brazil. Von Martius got at Madrid, from Don Fel. Bauza, the com- 
panion of the unfortunate cireumnavigator Malespina, about 400 Bolivian 
species of plants, collected by Thad. Haenke in Cochabamba and ‘its 
environs, being the first contribution from Spanish America incor- 
porated with the herbarium. Dr. von Martius’s ‘Adversaria Botanica,’ 
written on the subject of the plants observed by him during his 
Brazilian voyage, and which comprise 3,318 numbers, are attached in 
Six quarto volumes to the Royal herbarium. A transcript, according 
be persuaded to undertake a new edition of Linnæus’s ‘Genera Plantarum,’ after that 
of Reichhard (Frankfort, 1778). He now took measures to augment his herbarium ; 
but, in so doing, he omitted putting himself in communication with the French 
botanists, who might have furnished him with important contributions. He had 
not obtained Ant. Laur. de Jussieu’s celebrated work, i i 
rium; beyond that period we may, therefore, fairly assume, that the literary 
and historical importance of the herbarium does not extend. -7 
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