THE ROYAL HERBARIUM AT MUNICH. 71 
rare Pyrenean plants, and Papperitz of Dresden, 150 select plants of 
Central Germany. The vegetation of the Tyrol is nearly completely 
represented, by numerous transmissions of specimens to the Royal Aca- 
demy, on the part of the Imperial Ferdinandeum at Insbrack, amount- 
ing to more than 1,000 species. We mention here, especially, the 
liberal donations of Dr. von Barth, at Calw, corresponding member of 
the Royal Academy of Sciences, consisting of 160 species, collected by 
Kotschy and Hohenacker, in North Persia; 154 species sent. from 
Labrador, by the missionaries there, among which are some very 
beautiful specimens of cryptogamic plants and mosses; 600 species 
from Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus; and 295 species collected 
by the missionary Metz, in the East Indian province of Canara. From 
Hungary were received 250 species from My. Kovátz ; several species 
from Java, collected by Dr. Kollmann, chief surgeon in the Royal 
Netherland service. We omit detailing several other contributions 
of minor extent, among them Dr. Kummer’s, and Sendtner’s from dif- 
ferent parts of Germany. Of the latter we have a complete series of 
all the plants he collected during his voyage made under royal support, 
on the coast of Dalmatia and in Bosnia. Nor has the Royal Botanic 
Garden been wanting in contributing its share of important additions, 
especially of such species as are with difficulty procurable from their 
native countries. There are some thousand specimens, among which 
those carefully prepared and preserved by Dr. Kummer deserve es- 
pecial notice. 
On the death of the excellent Dr. Jos. Gerh. Zuccarini, prof. and 
second conservator (born 10th Aug., 1797, dec, 18th Feb., 1848),* 
the herbarium, which he had formed during five-and-twenty years of - 
intense zeal and activity, was ‘purchased by the Royal University, for 
the sum of 10,000 florins, payable in sixteen years, by annual in- 
stalments. The general herbarium became almost doubled by this — 
grand addition, not only of species collected by the deceased himself — 
during his frequent visits to the South of Germany, to Berlin, and - 
Leyden; but by the numerous contributions to him from many of the 
leading botanists of the time, with whom he kept up a frequent cor- 
respondence.t The flora of Asia is in particular richly represented 
m For a notice of this distinguished botanist, see the first volume of this Journal, 
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+ German plants were furnished by Koch, Hoppe, Funck, Fürnrohr, Treviranns, s 
