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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



The quotation is from the published 



the care of Mr. C. J. Hunn, 

 guide by Dr. J.J. Smith. 



"The botanical garden at Buitenzorg, which until 1904 officially 

 bore the name of s' Lauds Plantentuin (Government Botanical 

 Gardens), and is still commonly so called, was founded in 181 7, 

 in compliance with an order of the Dutch Government, by C. G. E. 



§5L*' 



114. DRIVEWAY THROUGH FERNS, BUITENZORG. 



Reinwardt, formerly a professor in Amsterdam. Reinwardt, after 

 remaining for about five years in the Indies, was succeeded as 

 director of 's Lands Plantentuin by Dr. C. L. Blume. Although 

 this savant had already returned to the Netherlands in 1826, he 

 still found the opportunity, it is to be said by making use of manu- 

 scripts left behind by the two young botanists, H. Kuhl and J. C. 

 van Hasselt, to describe a very great number of new species of 

 plants, and, moreover, compiled the first catalogue of the garden, 

 in which he already described 912 species. 1 



1 Blume, Car. Lud. Flora Javae nee 11011 Insularuin adjacentium. 4 vols. fol. 

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