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Mehmes and Vogel. He had asa fellow pupil Nees von Esen- 
beck, and later they prosecuted together their — at the house 
of the elder von Esenbeck, at pote He studied medicine 
ready collecting the materials for a more important one on the 
Cryptogamic Flora of Erlangen, which appeared three years 
Upon Schreber’s death, his herbarium was purchased by the Ba- 
Scien Academy, at Munic h, and when Professor Schrank of that 
came a pupil of the Academy, and in 1816 he was appo ointed to an 
office in the Botanic se and ane as director for Schrank 
press of Brazil. This decane his — _ linked his name 
im rishably with that great empire. The plan of the expedition 
was prepared by the Bayarian Academy, ae they sailed im an 
: dition, nor even an enumeration of its * fertile results. y peice: 
trated into Brazil, and traversed the valley of the Ananes to Pe- 
A 
tu, a distance of over 4,000 miles, much of it through an untrod- 
den region. The ey were spared fatal ihe but their rich re- 
r there in 1819. They were prostrated by sigh 
Bers, annoyed by wild beasts, and in danger from treacherous 
ie they re turned in 1820 with collections amounting to 3,500 spe- 
cies of animals, 6,500 species of plants, and a vast am mount of ma- 
mined the | health of Dr. Spix that he survived his return but a few 
Years, leaving the burden of publishing the vast amount of mate- 
rial lin had cee upon von Martius. The narrative was pub- 
om n three quarto volumes with folio atlas, entitled, Reise in : 
mn? Munich, 1824-31. oe 
rtment of the collection worked up was the Palms, x 
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