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books of dry science not excepted, are subject to the 

 censorship. To my great surprise, Endlicher, who 

 gave me all this information, informed me that all the 

 manuscript of his u Genera Plantarum " is sent to the 

 police, who transmit it to Baron Jacquin, the censor 

 for natural history, etc., and who is well paid for the 

 business, but who knows just as much about it as if it 

 were written in Arabic, and who certifies to each por- 

 tion that it contains nothing hurtful to the people, 

 nothing offensive to the emperor, to religion, etc., and 

 more than all, that it is good science ! To avoid the 

 annoyance of sending it back repeatedly, as he has 

 alterations to make, he is obliged to promise the 

 printer to indemnify him, in case any discrepancy is 

 observed between the manuscript and the printed 

 work. Endlicher spoke of all this in terms which 

 there is no necessity for me to record just at present. 

 He gave me an anecdote respecting the publication of 

 his earliest botanical work of any consequence, a 

 Flora of his native town, the " Flora Posoniensis : " 

 the manuscript being duly sent to Jacquin, that worthy 

 refused to give it his imprimatur, because it was ar- 

 ranged according to the natural system ! which Jac- 

 quin did not like ; and Endlicher was obliged to 

 apply personally to the ministers and take great 

 pains, when he obtained permission to print in spite 

 of the censor ; he took his revenge by dedicating the 

 work to Baron Jacquin himself ! This system suffi- 

 ciently explains the low state of literature in Austria, 

 as compared with northern Germany. I could hardly 

 believe all I have heard, had I not obtained my in- 

 formation from such authentic sources. . . . 



Friday evening, 31st May, 1839. The remainder 

 of the morning was devoted to the botanical cabinet ; 



