7. 28.] TO WILLIAM J. HOOKER. 269 
I had a few days to finish, and to look at Kunth’s! 
herbarium, with which I was rather disappointed. 
Kunth was extremely polite and attentive to me. He 
is at work upon the third volume of his “ Enumeratio,” 
but I fear it will not be very well done. I saw Ehren- 
berg? frequently, and Link? once or twice, but nearly 
all my time was spent at Schonberg, where the Bo- 
tanie Garden and Herbarium are stuabed: which is 
nearly a half hour’s ride from the city. The garden 
is much the finest, in Germany, and the government 
annually expends very large sums upon it. The build- 
ing exclusively devoted to the herbarium is very com- 
modious, though Klotzsch begins to complain that he 
has not sufficient room. It is so far from town that 
there are no loungers there, and one may study per- 
feetly undisturbed. I brought a few things for you 
from Klotzsch and Link, which Pamphlin is to send 
to-morrow. 
Having lost some time by illness I did not go to 
Rostock, a most out-of-the-world place, although I 
suppose I shall hereafter regret that I did not see 
Lamarck’s herbarium. 
I spent several days at Hamburg, saw Lehmann, his 
herbarium, and the botanic garden; and took steam- 
boat for London. Since my return I have been busily 
occupied in the city, completing some purchases for 
1 Karl Sigismund Kunth, 1788-1850. Appointed professor of bot- 
any at Berlin, 1819. Author of Enumeratio Plantarum and other well- 
known descriptive : 
* Christian Gottfried ee 1794-1876. Berlin. Student of 
the microscope, and author of works on the lower forms of plants and 
animals. 
8 Heinrich Friedrich Link, 1767-1851. Professor at Breslau, then 
at Berlin. Wrote Anatomy of Plants and Elements of Botanical Phil- 
hy. 
