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liini, and the manuscript under the title of Flora Paraensis, 

 and both one and the other given to Dr Von Martius for inser- 

 tion in the general Flora of Brazil. 



After the removal of the Court from Lisbon to Rio de 

 Janeiro, the Brazils were emancipated. Its ports were open- 

 ed to travellers of every country, and several European 

 Courts sent diplomatic representatives to the capital of this 

 now independent country. M. Von Langsdorff took up his 

 residence in Rio de Janeiro as an Imperial Consul-general, 

 and, attracted by the beauty of the vegetation, he directed 

 his energies to the collecting of the copious productions of 

 the district of Rio, particularly those of the Organ Moun- 

 tains, where he possessed the beautiful Fazenda Mandiocca, 

 and also a tract of the coast at Cabo Frio. He placed his 

 collections with great liberality in the public ISIuseums of 

 Paris, Munich, and St Petersburg, and in several private her- 

 baria. During the first years he had, as an assistant, Mr G. 

 W. Freyreiss of Frankfort, who afterwards entered into the 

 service of his Highness Prince Max. v. Neuwied, whom he ac- 

 companied, in 1816, and 1817, on his travels from Rio along 

 the coast to Bahia. At the expense of the Swedish Consul, 

 M. Westin, Freyreiss also made collections for the herbaria 

 of Upsal and Stockholm, and in two dissertations, written 

 under the Presidency of Thunberg by Billberg and Ahlberg, 

 (Upsal 1817 and 1818) are described twenty species of Frey- 

 reiss' collections. After he had undertaken a journey to 

 Minas Geraes,he went with his countryman, Mr Sauerlander, 

 to Ilheos, from whence both of them sent collections of Natu- 

 ral History to the Senkenberg Institute of their native city. 



Mr Fr. Sellow of Potsdam, was the first European Natu- 

 ralist who came to the Brazils purely with the view to obtain 

 its vegetable treasures. Aided by Sir Joseph Banks and 

 Mr Aylmer Bourke Lambert, he came to Rio de Janeiro, 

 and at first employed himself with the Flora of the environs of 

 that city, and then engaged himself at the same time with Mr 

 Freyreiss to the Prince de Neuwied. Through the influence 

 of the minister, Araujo, he was afterwards appointed Brazi- 



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