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Ern. Godofr. Baldinger, 
olim in Aca. Jememsi Prof. Bot. 
et Med. Theoret. ; in Acad. Goettingensi 
Med. Pract. ; in Academia Marburgensi 
Ord. Medicor. Prof. Primarius. 
Anno 1801 
“The prefatory note by Wangenheim is published in the account 
of the MS. given in Schrader’s Journal fiir die Botanik for 1800 
(Gottingen, 1801) p. 468. The following is a translation : 
to Linnaeus. 
‘This work isa remarkable one because it is that of a lady who 
possessed such a love for botany that she learned Latin, and judging 
by its nature is so worthy and correct that it contains many even 
minute things. 
‘This is written by F. von Wangenheim, 
Captain in the Field-Jager Corps of the Landgrave of Hesse 
New York, May, 1782.’ 
“It will be observed that this narrative contradicts Gray’s state- 
ment that Jane Colden died unmarried: Pritzel accepts Schrader's 
account but adds,‘ Moriens (1754) Floram manuscriptam Novi 
Eboraci tabulis ornatam reliquit Wangenheimio.’ If the MS. 
was bequeathed to Wangenheim, it is strange that he did not say 
so: the date given for her death is certainly inaccurate. att 
genheim’s statement that she ‘learned Latin’ is contrary to her 
father’s account, but probably only means that she acquired the 
Latin names of the plants she described ; the descriptions in the 
MS. (to which she gave no title) are all in English. 
“The actual number of figures is 340: the numbers of the 
descriptions run to 341, but these are really less numerous, as a 
good many pages are blank, save for the name of the plant at 
their head. This suggests that the figures were made before the 
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