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capital of the dominions of Prussia, such as Link, Rudolf >hi, Weiss, 

 Haijne, Humboldt, and Kunth, Von Buch and Chamisso, and Schlechtendul,' 

 together with Count AUenstein, the patron of science in Prussia. 



The Botanic Garden of Berlin has arrived at a very high degree of per- 

 fection, and M. Otto is unwearied in his endeavours to increase the col- 

 lection from all parts of the world. A publication upon the plants which 

 have flowered in it, somewhat similar to the Hortus Bcrolinensis of WilU 

 denow, the " Icones Plantarum ;" &c. has been begun by Link and Otto, 

 but we fear has come to a premature end with the fifth Number. Hayne 

 labours upon the medicinal plants, Rudolphi upon vegetable physiology, as 

 likewise does Horckel. Link is further engaged upon an Enumeratio 

 Plantarum Hort. Bcrol., of which one volume is already published ; and 

 conducts a work on the plan of our late Annals of Botany, under the title 

 of " Jahrhucher der Gewachskunde," of which four Numbers have appeared. 

 Two botanists, Offers and Selbw, have been sent to collect plants in Brazil, 

 and the latter has now proceeded for the same object to Buenos Ayres. 



Br von Chamisso, who is appointed assistant-director of the Berlin 

 Botanic Garden, is engaged in publishing the result of his botanical col- 

 lections, made by him during the voyage round the world under Captain 

 Kotzebue, and is at present occupied with the Grasses and Cyperacew. 

 His Herbarium is extremely rich, and the liberal use he makes of it is 

 highly deserving of imitation. Thus, Dr von Schlechtendul, so advantage- 

 ously known as the author of " Animadversiones Botanicce in Ranunculaceas 

 Decandollii," and who is now preparing for the press a " Flora Berolin- 

 ensis," has published the new species of Ranunculus ; Count Sternberg • 

 of Saxifraga; Kaulfuss, as we have mentioned in another part of the 

 present volume, the Ferns; Hornschuch has undertaken the Mosses; 

 Agardh the Algw ; and Ehrenberg the Fungi. 



The Herbarium and Library of Willdenow t having been purchased by 

 the Prussian government, and attached to the university, it is intended 

 to form with them the foundation of a great National Botanical Museum, 

 Dr Schlechtendul being appointed to the charge of it. Here are, besides 

 the Herbarium of Bergius from the Cape, of Chamisso, so rich in the plants 

 of the north coast of Asia, of North and South America, and Behring's 

 Straits, the private Herbarium of M. Otto and that of von Buch, which is 

 reckoned almost complete in the vegetable productions of the Canary Isles. 



The limits of our article, already too much extended, and yet, we are 

 aware, sadly deficient in the notice of many excellent botanists and many 



* The excellent author of " Revisio Sa.rifragarum," and a more learned work 

 on the " Vegetable Remains of a former World." 



•J- The grave of Willdenow is in the burying-ground of the church in the new 

 town. A small hillock is raised over his remains, and it is shaded by a weeping 

 Ash. Upon a stone fixed in the wall of the church is the following simple inscrip- 

 tion, " Here rests Dr Carl. Ludwig Willdenow, Knight of the Third Order of the 

 Bed Eagle, Regius Professor of Natural History and Botany, Director of the Bo- 

 tanic Garden, &c — Born at Berlin, August 22, 1765 ; died there July 10, 1812." 



