126 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Kaempfer’s labours. After his death all his unpublished manu- 
scripts as well as his herbarium, namely the plants collected in 
Japan and his drawings of Japanese plants, were purchased by 
Hans Sloane, the well-known collector and promoter of science, 
whose immense collections subsequently gave origin to the British 
Museum. In 1727 Kaempfer’s valuable Listory of Japan, ete. 
was published in English, translated from his original (Dutch) 
manuscript. In 1791 Sir J. Banks edited a volume with the title: 
Icones selectee plantarum quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit 
LE. Kaempfer, ex archetyp. in Museo Britannico asservatis. It 
contains 59 plates. 
After Kaempfer the first botanist to visit Japan was 0. P. Thun- 
berg, a Swede, born in 1748, died in 1892. He landed at Naga- 
saki in 1775, and on the 4th March of 1776 proceeded by the 
overland route to Yeddo, where he arrived on the 30th June- 
As the fruit of the botanical collections made during his stay in 
Japan he published in 1784 his Flora japonica, to which 39 
drawings of Japanese plants are appended. Besides this he pub- 
lished in 1794 his Zeones Plantarum japonicarum, 50 plates. I 
have seen in St. Petersburg another unpublished volume of 
drawings representing Japanese plants, executed from nature by 
order of Thunberg. As a scientific botanical nomenclature did 
not exist at the time when Kaempfer wrote, Thunberg tried to 
name those Japanese plants described in the Amcenitates exotice, 
which had not been previously determined and named by Lin- 
neus, and to identify the native names mentioned by Kaempfer. 
Much more was done in this respect by Dr. Siebold, the well- 
known and ardent explorer of Japan.—Ph. Fr. y. Siebold, a 
German, was born in 1796 in Wiirzburg. After having studied 
medicine and natural sciences he went to Holland, and entering 
the service of the Dutch East-India Company, set out for Batavia, 
where he arrived in 1822. The next year he was sent as a phy- 
sician and naturalist to Japan. He lived several years in the 
Dutch Factory at Decima (Nagasaki). In 1896 he had an op- 
portunity of visiting Yeddo. As the J apanese government 
suspected him of being in possession of a map of Japan, he was 
obliged to leave the country in 1830, and returned to Europe, - 
