106 THE ROYAL HERBARIUM AT MUNICH, 
Other parts of the Collection.—The Royal Herbarium possesses, 
likewise, a considerable number of fruits, seeds, and flowers, preserved 
in spirits, specimens of wood, drugs, and other interesting productions 
of the vegetable kingdom. Several objects of this description, namely, 
a considerable series of specimens of woods, were contained in the 
Schreberian collection. Still more important is the series of fruits 
and seeds brought from Brazil by Spix and Von Martius, and likewise 
specimens of the different sorts of Peruvian barks, which they obtained 
from the son of Hippolyt Ruiz, author. of the ‘ Quinologia;’ besides - 
other specimens of drugs. But owing to want of room and the 
requisite receptacles, these articles have not hitherto been scientifically 
arranged, or made accessible to the public. The series of woods, 
augmented by various specimens frof the Royal Garden, possessing 
anatomical and physiological interest, has been placed in the open 
passage to the Royal Herbarium, in glazed cases. 
There is likewise a small botanical library attached to the herbarium, 
for the most part transferred, with the Academy of Mannheim, from the 
botanical garden there. Of late years the most necessary handbooks 
for scientific gardening purposes have been acquired by the funds of the 
Royal Garden, where they are kept, and where is preserved, likewise, a 
collection of drawings of remarkable plants from the garden, with 
their analyses, executed in water colours, by Mr. Joseph Prestele, 
under direction of the conservator. 
Locality.—So long as the Royal Herbarium consisted of the 
Schreberian collection only, it was placed in one single room (now 
one of the offices) of the Royal Academy. On the accession of the 
harvest of Spix and Von Martius's Brazilian Voyage, the locale was 
extended to the three apartments, in which the academical sessions are 
at present held. In 1839 the locality in the eastern wing of the Wil- 
helmina building, formerly occupied by the collection of engravings, 
became that of the herbarium, and to it were subsequently added, 
on building the new publie library, two more apartments, which had 
hitherto been under the control of the directory of the library. At 
present the locality occupies an area of 2,755 square feet (Quadrat- 
schuhen) ; 1,767 being the extent of the six apartments, and 988, of 
the saloon which divides them. This locality is, however, destined for 
the mineralogical cabinets, as soon as the new buildings for the 
herbarium at the Royal Botanie Garden, which has already received 
