490 MEMOIR OF CHAMISSO. 
and then the appearance of M. Meyer’s work forestalled 
many of Chamisso’s discoveries. For most of the Carices 
in Eschscholz’s collection having been imparted to Meyer, that 
author naturally published the new species; and although 
Chamisso’s collection was still more extensive and I eagerly 
proffered my aid in describing them, and he actually had 
commenced the work, yet, just at this conjuncture, my re- 
moval to Halle proved the unfortunate cause of the task 
being finally abandoned. So, likewise, passed out of his own 
possession the beautiful outlines and analyses which Cha- 
misso's hand had made of the Carices and Eriophora; 
accompanied by descriptions, drawn up from numerous spe- 
eimens. Still, much that is new and valuable has been made 
known in various ways; Lessing having published all the 
Composite, Bentham the Labiate, Schiede the Linee, De 
Gingins the Viole and Ernst Meyer the Junci. In the 
beautiful monograph by Count Sternberg, Chamisso’s Saai- 
frages find a place, and, since their discoverer had withdrawn 
_ from botanical labours, his Leguminosae have been described 
by Vogel in the Linnza and his Erice by Klotzsch. Thus 
we see how freely the treasures which this eminent botanist 
and traveller was enabled to collect have been imparted by 
him, wherever he thought a good use would be made of 
them. Happily this noble spirit of liberality is gaining ground 
among Botanists and superseding the narrow minded avarice 
with which naturalists were too apt to keep to themselves 
every thing but their opinions and dogmas on science. A 
similar disposition was evinced by Chamisso, when he pre- 
sented to the Royal Herbarium a specimen of every thing 
he had collected, annexing this condition to the sale of his 
plants after his decease, that the purchaser should be obliged 
to do the same by all such species as were not already deter- : 
mined and published. Great, too, was the interest which he 
felt in the prosperity of the Linnea; he aided it by his own 
frequent contributions and also by the still greater and more 
unpleasing task of correcting the printed sheets, which was 
a truly laborious business, and he farther promoted its suc- 
