Herbaria, Gardens and Botanists of Upsal, §c. 189 
Arr. X XI.—WNotes on the Herbaria, Gardens and Botanists of 
Upsal, St. Petersburg, §c., gathered from the letters of a 
distinguished botanist during a continental tour.* 
Ar Upsal, I was fortunate enough to find both Prof. Wahlenberg, 
who has the care of the Museum of Natural History and Botanic 
Garden, and Professor Fries, at home. Both received me with 
every civility and attention, and I spent as much time with one or 
the other as my short stay would admit of my devoting to botany. 
he Museum was founded after the younger Linnzus’s death, 
when the loss to the country of Linnzus’s herbarium, made the 
government feel the want of a public establishment for the re- 
ception of national collections. The herbarium, placed in two 
spacious and well lighted rooms, consists chiefly of 'Thunberg’s 
herbarium, Afzelius’ African herbarium, and Wahlenberg’s pri- 
vate herbarium. Of these, Thunberg’s is by far the most valua- 
hames so as to render them quite illegible, and substituted others ; 
So that unless some botanist of correct judgment, and well ac- 
quainted with Cape plants, were to come and bestow some 
months on going through his herbarium, the puzzles of the Flora 
Capensis must remain tincleared. 'The specimens are generally 
small; but with a few exceptions tolerably satisfactory and well 
preserved. Afzelius’s Sierra Leone collection is a very fine one ; 
Wes Bhai Shin, 23 2 
* Extracted from the London Journal of Botany for October, 1846. Ay 
We are informed by the writer ‘of these notes, that Dr. Lehman at Hamburg, has 
d time to finish the Plante Preissiane: at Copen agen, Prof Schouw, so 
i has been ill for the last year and 
min Dr. Liebmann, the adjunct professor, has lately returned from Mexico, 
With a collection of plants which he estimates at 0,000 species. e um 
(who lived many years in Greenland,) the present librarian at the Botanic Gar- 
Swartz, which belongs to the Academy of Sciences. It appears to be extensive 
and in good preservation. 
