370 History of Ceylon Botany. 



plantae chartis non agglutinatae.' A reprint of the ' Musaeum ' 

 appeared in 1726. 



Meanwhile Sherard, anxious to continue Hermann's work in 

 Ceylon, recommended John Hartog, who was born and trained in 

 the Leyden garden, to proceed thither. At the Cape Hartog 

 collected many rarities, but was only saved from being torn in 

 pieces by a lion by the timely bullet ('globus missilis') of his 

 servant's gun. His Cape plants, with those of Oldenland, form 

 the second of the two catalogues bound up with Burmann's 

 'Thesaurus.' Though after being some time in Ceylon he sent 

 to Voss the ' complete ' herbarium which Burmann used for his 

 'Thesaurus,' Hartog seems not to have long survived. Meanwhile 

 Hermann's own herbarium, upon which the ' Musaeum ' had been 

 based, appears to have been completely lost sight of till the year 

 1744, when August Giinther, Apothecary-Royal at Copenhagen,* 

 sent to Linnaeus at Upsala to be named a collection of Indian 

 plants in five volumes, one being a volume of drawings. 



From Giinther, Hermann's herbarium 'passed into the posses- 

 sion of Count A. G. Moltke,f at whose death it was purchased by 

 Prof.' Treschow, of Copenhagen. The latter sold it to Sir Joseph 

 Banks for 75/.,! and it passed, with the rest of the Banksian 

 collection, into the keeping of the Trustees of the British Museum 

 in 1827. Since it came into the hands of Sir J. Banks, it has been 

 frequently the object of examination. Especially it was very 

 thoroughly gone over by Dryander, who, in a copy of the " Flora 

 Zeylanica " (now in the Botanical Department of the British 

 Museum), entered against each species references to the volumes 

 and folios of the herbarium where the corresponding specimens 



are to be found Robert Brown, Dryander's successor in the 



charge of the Banksian collections, was also in the habit of con- 

 sulting the herbarium, and frequently quotes its specimens. Dr. 

 Wight was unfortunately able to consult it only to a limited 

 extent.§ . . . . W. Ferguson, F.L.S., of Colombo, when on a visit 

 to England .... carefully examined the whole collection.' || 

 The results of Dr. Trimen's own detailed work in 1886 are 

 embodied in the paper from the introduction to which this passage 

 is taken. He says of the herbarium {loc. cit., p. 132), 'The 

 specimens, considering their age and the vicissitudes the collection 

 has sustained, are in very fair condition ; and, in the few cases 

 where identification is uncertain, this arises more from the material 

 being originally scanty or imperfect than from any deterioration 



* There are five letters from Giinther to Linnaeus in the correspondence of the 

 great naturalist preserved in the library of the Linnean Society. The dates of these 

 are from 1744 to 1749. Two are written in Swedish and three in Latin. 



f Rottboll, ' Descriptiones et Icones rar. pi. ' (1786), p. 49. 



X MS. note by Dryander in the Herbarium. 



§ Preface to ' Prodromus Florae Indiae Orientalis,' p. x. 



|| Trimen, loc. cit., pp. 130, 131. 



