HISTORY OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FLORA OF SURINAM. y 



savanne and the Para-district and after having brought his collection in safety 

 at Paramaribo, prepared an expedition along the -Saramacca. After having 

 stayed a time at Saron, Kegel went further up the Saramacca as far as the 

 first rapids. He did not succeed in getting further, however, since not only 

 the bush-negroes forbade him to stay in their villages, but even forced him 

 to return below the rapids. Kegel now returned to Maripaston, where he 

 stayed for a long time. An important part of his collection was brought 

 together near this village. From there he undertook an expedition to a village 

 on the river Coppenam. His intention of penetrating from this point to the 

 river Corantine was frustrated by the unwillingness of his Indian servants. 

 Kegel however did not give up his plan; he first brought his collection to 

 Paramaribo and then set out once more to Maripaston, where he could find 

 no Indians, however, to show him the way to the Coppenam. Yet Kegel 

 made an attempt with other Indians, but serious illness, as well of himself 

 as of his servants, forced him soon to return to Paramaribo. In December 

 1846 he is back at Ghent. His collection consisted of 1400 to 1500 specimens 

 of herbarium material, numerous zoological objects and a number of live 

 plants and seeds. After his return he first became professeur ddmonstra- 

 teur d'horticulture th£or6tique at the horticultural school at Ghent and in 

 October 1847 hortulanus at Halle a/S. After his journey in Surinam Kegel 

 seems to have enjoyed bad health. He died at Halle in May 1856 of disease 

 of the stomach. ') 



Some years after Kegels's death H. R. Wullschlagel settled in the colony. 

 Born in 1805 at Sarepta in Russia, Wullschlagel received a theological edu- 

 cation in Silesia, afterwards became a teacher at Hernhutt and went out as 

 a missionary in 1844 to Antigua, where he stayed till 1847 and collected an 

 important herbarium. From 1847 to 1849 he was a missionary in Jamaica, 

 where he also made botanical collections. In 1849 he became principal of 

 the community of brethren at Paramaribo. His collection was chiefly assem- 

 bled in the environs of this town, for a smaller part in the Para district. 

 Wullschagel remained in Surinam till 1855; he then became principal of the 

 community of brethren at Bertelsdorf near Hernhutt, in 1857 became a bishop 

 there and died at Bertelsdorf in 1864. a ) 



A very small collection of plants was assembled from 1853 to 1855 by 

 Dr. F. Voltz. As a member of a German committee for investigating to what 

 extent Surinam was fit for colonisation, Voltz chiefly occupied himself with 

 the geology of the colony. Shortly before he could have carried out his plan 

 of returning to Europe, Voltz died of yellow fever at Paramaribo. His bo- 

 tanical collection is in the herbarium of the university of Utrecht. 



Probably from the same period dates a collection by Dr. Dumontier, 



') Reichenbach fil. in Linnaea XLI (1877) p. 119. 

 ") Urban, Symbolae Antillanae III p. 145. 



