Nov. igo2. Flora of the Island of St. Croix — Millspau(;h. 453 



latter position he made two more comprehensive voyages of vis- 

 itation. In December, 1840, he made a voyage to the islands 

 St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, St. Kitts and Antigua, remain- 

 ing until July of the following year, and during 1853-54 he visited 

 South Africa. Became bishop in 1853, retired in 1857, and died 

 February 18, 1875, at Herrnhut. The plants collected by Breutel 

 on his voyages were mostly cryptogams. He also attended to 

 the distribution of the cryptogamic part of H. G. L. Reichen- 

 bach's Flora Germ Exsicc. , beginning with the third century. 

 Coll. : The first set of duplicate ferns (now in the Leipzig Her- 

 barium) were acquired by G. Kunze, and the liverworts (now in the 

 Berlin Museum) by Gottsche. There is a large moss collection (310 

 nos.) of Breutel's in the British Museum. There are other collections 

 in the Municipal Natural History Museums of Bremen and Liibeck. 

 in Bot. Museum at Breslau, and in Herb. Hieronymus (now in Ber- 

 lin), etc. 



Lit.: Briefl. INIittheilung des Missions-Directors G. Burkhardt 

 m Berthelsdorf; Ref. Flora XXXII (1849), p. 525: Cat. Sc. Pap. I, p. 

 612; llrb. Symb. I, p. 16. 



1841. LiEinLAXN, Frederik Michael (1813-56), bom at Helsingor 

 (Denmark), October lo, 1813, began his studies at the University 

 of Copenhagen in 1832, occupied himself at first especially with 

 the Algae of Denmark and bordering countries; went to Germany 

 in 1835, to Norway in 1836, became instructor in botany in the 

 Veterinary School in 1837, and in 1841, under the patronage of 

 King Christian \TII, went to Mexico, where he traveled from 

 February, 1841, until March, 1843. On his outward journey he 

 collected during January, 1841, on St. Croix and Porto Rico, and 

 on the return voyage, during April, 1843, he spent several weeks 

 in Cuba. While engaged in working up his extensive collec- 

 tions he died, comparatively early, on the 29th of October, 1856, 

 as professor-in-ordinary while director of the Botanical Gardens, 

 Copenhagen. 



Coll.: Bot. INIuseum, Copenhagen: duplicates in the herbaria of 

 Kew, Berlin, Leyden and de Candolle. 



Lit.: Las. Mus. Deless., p. 468; Oersted: Notice sur la vie de 

 Liebmann et specialement sur son voyage au Mexique in Liebmann: 

 Chenes de I'Amerique tropicale (1869), p. 7-10: Hemsl. Biol. IV, p, 

 129; Leon Bibl. Botan. Mexic. (1895), p. 355: Warming in Bot. 

 Tidsskr. Kopenh. XII (1880-81), p. 158-162, et in Bricka's Dansk 

 biogr. Lex. vol. X (1896), p. 281-283: Kiaersk. in Bot. Tidsskr. XXIII 

 (1900), p. 42; Pritz. Thes. II ed. , p. 184: Jacks. Guide, p. 139. 333, 

 445: Cat. Sc. Pap. IV, p. 21-22. 



1843-70. Krebs. Hexrik Johannes (1821), born in Svendborg, on 

 the Island of Fuenen (Denmark), June 8, 1821, son of Rev. J. K. 

 A. Krebs, studied pharmacy, and in the autumn of 1843 went to 

 St. Thomas. From this island as a base he made numerous jour- 

 neys to North and South America, to the Bermudas and Bahamas 



