The first four months of 1894 were occupied by a visit to south- 

 ern Africa. In January and February he was in Cape Colony 

 with a brief side-trip to the Orange Free State and the Trans- 

 vaal; in March he was in Natal, with another brief visit to the 

 two republics; he returned by way of Suez, stopping in Mozam- 

 bique and at Zanzibar. 



During the winter of 1895-96 he removed from Berlin to a 

 villa at San Remo, Italy, which was his home for the remainder 

 of his life. Here he kept his botanical library and herbarium, 

 and continued work along his favorite lines until the end. In 

 1898 the third volume of his Revisio, including a report upon 

 the plants collected upon his second visit to South America and 

 his African trip, was completed. His most important later work 

 was in collaboration with Tom von Post, of Upsala, Sweden, 

 upon his "Lexicon generum phanerogamarum, " a useful little 

 handbook issued in 1904. In that year Kuntze took his second 

 and last journey around the world, in the reverse direction from 

 the earlier one, and by a more southerly route. He visited Cey- 

 lon, New South Wales, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, Hawaii, 

 and the United States, sailing from New York for home on the 

 10th of September. In 1905 he attended the international 

 botanical congress at Vienna, and appeared at one of the ses- 

 sions devoted to nomenclature long enough to denounce it 

 bitterly as a body lacking proper authorization for the task upon 

 which it was engaged. The following year he was in poor health, 

 and he died at San Remo, January 28, 1907. 



Besides the books mentioned in the course of this sketch, 

 Kuntze was the author of various pamphlets, and contributed 

 from time to time to numerous periodicals. In spite of his im- 

 portant labors as a plant collector and a taxonomic botanist, 

 he will doubtless be remembered chiefly because of his contri- 

 butions to the vexed questions of botanical nomenclature. His 

 views did not prevail, nor is there any probability that they will 

 ever be accepted ; yet the importance of his contributions to the 

 discussion of the subject can not be overlooked. After his death, 

 his herbarium became the property of the New York Botanica 

 Garden; and the European portion of it has now found a rest- 

 ing-place in the Charleston Museum. 



John Hbndley Barnhart. 



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