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used their influence, and succeeded in obtaining for him an annual 

 grant of money from the Danish Government; the Reiseverein at 

 Erlangen also stepped forward ; and, aided by these means, Ecklon 

 was enabled to carry out his exploration on a large scale. Having 

 returned to South Africa, he visited the vicinity of Cape Town in 

 every direction, and undertook a journey to Kaffraria. After the com- 

 pletion of the latter he entered into partnership with M. C. Zeyher, 

 went, in company with that botanist, once more to KafErland, and 

 repaired, in 1832, with their joint collections, to Hamburg, where he 

 was employed several years in distributing the specimens (the botanical 

 alone amounting to 8000 species), and superintending the publication 

 of Ecklon and Zeyher's 'Enumeratio PL Afric' In 1838 he returned 

 to the Cape, and shortly after separated from M. Zeyher. He, how- 

 ever, continued collecting, and in 1844 paid another visit to Europe, 

 staid a few months, and in the same year came back to his adopted 

 country, whei'e he has remained ever since. 



Ecklon is the author of several works. As early as 1827 he pub- 

 lished a dissertation on the Ensatae and Coronarise, and in 1833, in 

 conjunction with M. Zeyher, the well-known Enumeratio, a work, un- 

 fortunately, not brought to a conclusion. He has, besides, written 

 various memoirs, which from time to time have appeared in European 

 and Southern-African periodicals ; he is a member of several learned 

 societies, and received, in 1838, from the University of Kiel, in consi- 

 deration of his eminent services in the field of science, the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy. 



C. L. P. Zeyher. 



Charles Ludwig Philip Zeyher, the eldest son of Jacob Zeyher, was 

 born at Dillenberg, Germany, on the 2nd of August, 1799. After 

 completing the usual course of elementary education he was sent, in 

 1816, to the grand ducal gardens at Schwetzingen, which at that 

 time were under the direction of his uncle, the well-known landscape 

 gardener.* He remained at that place seven years, acquiring a know- 

 ledge of gardening and botany ; and he would, probably, ere long 

 have become Court-gardener (Hof-gartner) to Prince Wied-Runkel, 

 which post had previously been filled both by his father and grand- 

 father, had not his desire to travel and explore foreign countries given 

 a different direction to his life. Dr. F. Sieber, who made his acquaint- 



* At present this post is filled by M. Theodor Hartweg, formerly Collector of the 

 Horticultural Society of London. 



