FRINDRICH WELWITSCH. 9 
also been at our service.”? Of this Flora two volumes have been 
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excellent specimens and notes afforded the descriptions and enabled 
inferior . specimens from other collectors to be referred to their 
examination of his African herbarium ; but in ce of collec- 
tions, books, and qualified men in Lisbon, little witha bee dicho towards 
naming and arranging them. It was, indeed, absolutely necessary to 
roceed to one of the great scientific centres, and London was selected. 
After a visit to the meee sa Exhibition of 1862, Dr. Welwitsch 
returned to Lisbon, and commenced the removal of the greater part of 
his collections, with whic ree? in the next year, 1863, he arrived in ~ 
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es gE of the work of examining, naming, and publishing the 
plants, and to defray the attendant expenses, Dr. Welwitsch should 
receive a regular grant which he considered sufficient. 
He at once set to his work, and also entered into various arrange- 
ments with societies and individuals for engraving plates and publish- 
ing descriptions ; but hardly had two years passed when, to use his own 
words in the instructions to his executors, ‘“‘a false and calumnious 
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attack e€ upon me in the Portuguese House of Parliament. 
Some one asserted that I was selling the Angolan collections an 
livin lendour on th eeds,” and ‘‘ without the slightest 
six months after the attack, that my subsidium had been 
I have been left to proceed with my work in London por the 
slightest a or remunera — and have had to pay out of my 
faith of my oma subsidium I nora gee ae myself ; and when I 
have sent to the Portuguese Ssocbintn cat copies of my works, I have 
never been gratified by the smallest expression of approval, or with 
any recognition of my self-sacrifice and devotion 
It is only proper to put these facts on record, as they afford a clue 
to much of Dr. Welwitsch’s conduct and character r during the last few 
years of his life in London, Not that he ever withdrew his hand — 
from his Te He worked at his collections without intermission 
from early morning till late at night, in spite of frequent fevers and 
other actin of his tropical life, and was indefatigable in ae 
himse coura vo with .. eon was published in botani and 
entomological science, and naming and arranging his coll parce 
accordance ; me 7 felt dewpiy't the unworthy conduct of the Govern- 
ment of the c ye in whose service he had sacrificed the best part of 
his life, ein e became suspicious and averse to society. With 
the exception of a visit to Paris in 1867, in connection with the 
