6 BERTHOLD SEEMANN, 
next day his body was buried close by his house at the mine, in the little 
patch of industry and civilization his energy had called into existence in 
the primeval forest, and surrounded by the tropical vegetation he knew 
so well. 
Besides the books already mentioned, Dr. Seemann was the author of 
many others. In 1858 he was asked to write the descriptions in English 
and German to the * Paradisus Vindobonensis, a series of eighty-four 
magnificent plates printed in colours. In 1852, he wrote an enumeration 
in German of the Acacias cultivated in Europe, with two plates. His 
‘Popular History of Palms’ (1856) is well known, and, translated into 
German by Dr. Bolle, has passed through two editions in that language. 
His * British Ferns at one View? (1860) has been a useful work to ama- 
teurs. Among his smaller botanical books may be mentioned * Hanoverian 
Customs and Manners in their Relation to the Vegetable Kingdom’ (1862) 
in German, an English translation of Von Kittlitz's * Twenty-Four Views 
of the Vegetation of the Coasts and Islands of the Pacific’ (1861), and the 
introduction to Lindley and Moore's excellent * Treasury of Botany’ (1865), 
besides the ‘Popular Nomenclature of the American Flora’ (1851), an 
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prefaces to several books of travels which he edited. Of detached papers 
in science, the Royal Society’s Catalogue (to 1863) enumerates fifty-eight 
under Dr. Seemann’s name; the aS = e is E on descriptive 
botany in the Regensburg “ Flora” 
But beyond his scientific ed k emit was a very prolific 
author of articles on subjects of general literature and politics. These 
are said to amount altogether to several thousands, in English, Ger- 
man and several other languages, which he wrote well. He was also 
the author of several short dramas, two or three of which have some 
popularity in Hanover, and of some pieces of music, of which art he 
possessed a good knowledge. Besides the Academy Nat. Curios., 
Dr. Seemann was a Fellow of the Linnean, Geographical and other 
societies in England and abroad; he took particular interest in the 
Anthropological Society, of which he was vice-president, In botany the 
groups which more especially engaged his attention were the genera 
Camellia and Thea (of which he published a synopsis in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xxii.) and other Jernstrémiacea, the Crescentiacee (which he 
also monographed in the Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii.); the Hederacee, 
a revision of which Order, reprinted from, this Journal, he published as a 
separate work in 1868; and the Bignoniacee, with which he intended to 
have pursued a similar plan. Regel (Gartenflora, iv. p. 183 and t. 126) 
dedicated to him a — Gesneraceous plant from the Andes, now 
Seemannia sylvatica, Hans: 
Dr. Seemann married an n English lady; but had the misfortune to lose 
his wife a few years ago, during one of his absences in Central America. — z 
He leaves an only daughter. A good portrait was diee eus in No. 36 
