70 THE ROYAL HERBARIUM AT MUNICH. 
presented his whole collection in 1832 (he was born Aug. 21, 1747, and 
died Dec. 22, 1835). It comprised a collection of Bavarian plants, 
forming the materials of the ‘ Flora of Bavaria’ of that celebrated 
naturalist, published at. Munich in 1789 (2 vols. 8vo), and preserved 
in forty-two cases. Further, a collection of Cape plants made by 
Brehm ;* among which, are the original specimens which had served 
for Schrank’s dissertation on the Cape Zridee (Mem. of the Roy. 
Bot, Soc. vol. ii. p. 165-224); and the Gnaphalioidee (Mem. of the 
Academy of Sciences at Munich, vol. viii. p. 141-172) ; also some pur- 
chased collections, among them one made by Salzmann about Mont- 
pellier.. One year later were commenced Dr. Wallich’s distributions 
of Indian specimens of plants, among public and private herbariums, 
by authority of the East India Company. Of Póppig were purchased 
350 species from the southern Andes chain, and Chili. 
In the. year 1834 were obtained 1040 species of Zeyher’s and 
Ecklon’s Cape plants; also an entire herbarium made by a Bavarian 
botanist, Fr. Xav. Berger, of Berchtesgaden, during his many years’ 
. peregrination in South Germany, and his sojourn, during three years, 
as military chaplain to: the Bavarian troops in Greece, where he died. 
The purchase of this precious collection was effected by extraordinary 
royal grants, amounting to 1,200 florins. At subsequent periods were . 
added to the general herbarium 810 species collected by Preisz, in 
Western New Holland; and nearly 1,300 species gathered in Brazil, by 
Patricio da Silva Manso, Ackermann, Luschnath, Clausen, and Riedel. 
From Mexico was obtained a considerable addition, resulting from two 
voyages of the Baron von Karwinski to-that rich country; and, by 
exchange, several hundred. species collected by Andrieux in Mexico; 
by Allan, Cunningham, in New Zealand ; by Fred. Zuccarini, jun., in 
Greece; by Tenore, in Naples; by Szowitz, in the environs of Odessa ; 
and by Salzmann, in Tangier. Dr. Guyon, chief surgeon to the army at 
Algiers, and corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 
sent from thence several hundred specimens; Von Zwackh sent 192 
* This worthy gentleman I hope is still alive and in good health. In October 
1843, I had the pleasure to meet him at Uitenhagen, on my tour through the Cape 
of Good Hope districts with the Judge of Cireuit, He kept a capital druggist's shop, 
and was Deputy Sheriff of the district. In his garden I saw, among many other 
things, three fine and large species of Zamia and a most gigantic Tamus. Mr. 
Brehm possesses a large amount of botanical knowledge concerning the productions 
of the Colony, and is, besides, a man of very general information. He accompanied 
my party some days on our route towards Graham's Town.— N. W. 
