488 MEMOIR OF CHAMISSO. 
Euxenia, were presented by him to President Nees von 
Esenbeck for publication in the Hore Physice Berolinenses, 
in which work also appeared, from the pens respectively, of 
his friends Ehrenberg and Hornschuch, the Fungi and Mosses 
that he had collected during his travels. 
In 1819 an honorary diploma from the University of 
Berlin conferred on him the title of Doctor of Philosophy, 
and the minister von Altenstein appointed him Assistant in 
the Berlin Botanical Institution, charging him to pay parti- 
cular attention to the Botanical Garden. Accordingly he 
removed his residence to the village of Neu Schöneberg that 
he might be near the garden, and he began making a collec- 
tion of cultivated plants and also commenced working on the 
fruits of his voyage. It was his plan to publish first the 
numerous beautiful species of Reed grass, that he had brought 
home, illustrating those especially of the northern districts, 
with figures drawn by himself, aided by our mutual friend 
Eyssenhardt. Unhappily, the latter, who was Professor at 
Konigsberg, and who had been zealously preparing a Mono- 
graph on this tribe, died soon after, in the prime of life, and 
the great fire, which occurring in the summer of 1822, des- 
troyed Chamisso’s peaceful dwelling, and though it alike 
spared human life and his valuable collections, yet materially 
damaged many loose portions of his treasures and induced 
him to quit the country and reside in Berlin. The Botanic 
Garden did not give him full employment, and the Royal 
Herbarium, founded by the minister von Altenstein on the 
basis of Willdenow’s collections, held out an agreeable pros- 
pect of occupation to our Botanist. This Herbarium was 
placed under my special charge and temporarily lodged ina 
building near the Botanic Garden, which affording, however, 
no accommodation for the superintendents, we were obliged 
to walk thither daily from Berlin. Winter weather or sum- 
mer, wet or dry, my friend and I used regularly to meet 
there every morning, to pursue our common labours. 
Just at this time, Chamisso was ordered by Government 
to prepare thirty small Herbaria, for the purpose of facilitat- 
