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far as I can remember, I executed for him nearly 500 paintings 

 principally from nature, and also several paintings for Herr 

 Leskenkohl. 



[Herr Weinmann was collecting paintings for his ' Phytanthoza- 

 iconographia,' which was afterwards published.] 



When the time came to demand my yearly salary, Herr 

 "Weinmann retained some of my money (I received 20 K., but he 

 would not pay me the remaining 30 K.) ; and gave as his reason 

 that I had not eutirely completed his work, as I had promised to 

 do in a year. [The work was to consist of 1000 plates.] 



Thereupon I left him, and Herr Leskenkohl received me to 

 paint his plants, with a salary of 100 Eeichsthaler ; and I re- 

 mained for tbe next five years at Eegensburg, and completed 

 three volumes of the ' Hortus Malabaricus.' 



Now, though I had been so cast down through my first falling 

 out with Herr Weinmann, I thought less of it, and forgave tbe 

 loss of my money, since I had profited mucb by him in botany, 

 which perhaps might serve me in the future. I began to make 

 a better collection of plants than Herr Weinmann, and turned 

 my attention in my leisure hours to botany and painting. In 

 order to cut myself off entirely from gardening, I completed in 

 the five years a considerable collection of plants [.560 paintings] 

 growing round Eegensburg, among them being many exotic ones. 



This collection was made known through the late Herr Beurer, 

 a new acquaintance of mine who was beginning his studies [as 

 an apothecary] towards the end of my stay in Eegensburg. He 

 admired my collection, and asked if I would not sell it, as he 

 could perhaps find me a patron, and asked what I wished to 

 obtain for it. I made up my mind at last and sold the collectiou 

 (how many hundreds there were of them I have quite forgotten) 

 to Herr Dr. Wiedmann of Nuremberg. [Dr. Trew says that 

 this collection was first offered to him through Herr Beurer ; but 

 although he recognized the excellence of the work, he declined to 

 buy the drawings, as they were mostly of native and common 

 plants, and were painted on ordinary small writing-paper. 

 Dr. Trew found Ehret a purchaser in the person of Dr. Wied- 

 mann, and at the same time requested Ehret to paint for him as 

 many plants as he could on large tine paper. Ehret sent him 

 80 plates from Eegensburg in 1732.] 



Through this, my first transaction of the kind, I had at the 

 same time the honour of making the acquaintance of the learned 

 Dr. Trew, in order to paint plants for him, and I continue to do 

 so, through God's help, up to the time of writing these lines, 

 May 15, 1758. 



During the end of my stay in Eegensburg I took a journey to 

 the University of Altorf to see the Botanic (warden. Herr Beuer 

 [Baier ?] was then botanical professor, and I went into the garden 

 to hear him lecture on the plants. Now, he had a large audience, 

 and no one spoke a word ; but I interrupted him in the lecture 

 (which was not allowed, though I did not know it), and a^ked him 



