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incliuled 2,604 species, the Herb. Cubense (Ramon de la Sagra, Lin- 

 den, etc.), 4,464 species, together with a large number of duplicates, 

 were purchased (1856) by Count Alfred de Franqueville of Paris, who 

 loaned them to botanists in a most liberal manner for the purpose of 

 study. In 1891, after the count's death, the herbarium was purchased 

 by Drake del Castillo who presented a part of it to the Paris Museum. 

 There are duplicates in Herb. \'ahl, Copenhagen; Herb. Willdenow, 

 Berlin; Herb. Casson, Paris. 



Lit.: K. S. Kunth: Notice sur Louis-Claude-Marie Richard. 

 Paris, 1824, 8°, 23 p. (ex-Pritz. Thes. I ed., p. 145); extract then - 

 from in Hook. Journ. of Bot. IV (1842), p. 423-433 (with portrait); 

 G. Cuvier: Eloge hist, de M. Richard in Mem. du Museum d'hist. 

 nat. XH (1825), p. 349-366, et in Mem. Acad. Scienc. \'n (1827), p. 

 194-212; Las. Mus. Deless, p. 474; Diet. Scienc. nat. vol. LVI 

 (1845), p. 211, 212; Didot Nouy. Biogr. gener. XLH (1863), p. 184- 

 187; Sagot in Ann. Sc. nat. VI ser., vol. x (1880), p. 366; the islands 

 visited over against the erroneous statements of the authors accord- 

 ing to the herbarium labels: Pritz. Thes. II ed. , p. 48, 97, 263; Jacks. 

 Guide, p. 8, 36, 129, 354, 508; Cat. Sc. Pap. V, p. 187; epistolary 

 contributions concerning the Herb. Richard, von Drake del Castillo 

 in Paris and ex-Hook. Journ. of Bot. and Kew Misc. VIII (1856), p. 

 81, 82; also Botan. Zeitung XIV (1856), p. 151, 152. 



1787. IsERT, P.AUi. ERD^rANN (1,757-89), bom in Denmark in the 

 year 1757, went as chief physician to the Danish possessions in 

 Guinea in 1783, where he remained until 1786, devoting himself 

 incidentally to the study of natural history. His return voyage 

 took him across America (Columbia) and also to the islands of 

 St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Eustache, Guadeloupe and 

 Martinique. On St. Croix and Martinique especially, he col- 

 lected plants during 1787, returning to Copenhagen in the same 

 year, where he died in 1789. 

 Coll.: Bot. Museum Copenhagen; Herb. Willdenow, Berlin; 



Herb. Univ. of Leipsig. 



Lit. : Warm, in Bot. Tidsskr. Kopenh. XII (1880), p. 79; Kiaersk. 



1. c. XXIII (1900), p. 41 ; Pritz. Thes. II ed., p. 158; Urb. Symb. I, p. 84. 



1788-1800 West, Hans (1758-1811), son of a preacher, born in 

 Hindsholm on the island Fuenen (Denmark) in 1758, studied 

 modern languages in Copenhagen, and in 1788 went to St. Croix, 

 where until 1800 he was rector of the Christiansted school and 

 later notary public. Went as consul to Holland in 1802, and 

 died at Cassel while on his way back from France. He collected 

 for the most part on St. Croix, but also on St. Thomas, Crab 

 Island, Porto Rico (whither he made excursions wath Ledru in 

 1797), and on Martinique. His collections, consisting of both 

 phanerogams and cryptogams, were sent to Prof. \'ahl of Copen- 

 hagen. 

 Coll. ; Bot. Museum, Copenhagen ; some also in the Berlin 



Museum, and in Herb, de Candolle (ex-Herb. Pueraris). 



