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who was an enthusiastic botanist.and his friend. , On. Zeyher's arrival 
in Hamburg the whole of the saleable pecunena were store 
m Dr. W. S 
was never able to repay either of the advances, and by a mutual under- 
standing Pappe satisfied Dr. Son Miis Torn m,.and increased by.that 
amount the hypothecation on the herba . Ultimately Zeyher made 
over the collection to Dr. Pappe, “508 aonad to study and use it 
ily, by the holder’s hearty permission, just as if it had been still his own. 
Dr. oe died in 1852, leaving his family in. somewhat. straitened. 
cireumstanees and possessors of the considerable botanical Wee and 
baria ci APR during a long life. Unaware of the mode of 
exploiting either one or the other the heritors offered the fibre y for 
sale at an ordinary auction, and the volumes were, with much grudging, 
bought by the Public Library Management at a shilling apiece. No 
buyer presented himself for the herbarium. At last Mr. Rawson W. 
wson, the Colonial Secretary, induced the Gove et to give the 
family 400/. for it. Its value then, before it had deteriorated by bad 
housing and years of neglect, might have been about 1,200/. It was 
stored away, now in one place and now in another, much as oathay is 
stored, and suffered from the inevitable insects which prey on dried 
plants and also from rain dripping through the roof of its presumed 
shel ‘Then it was at — J. €. Brown's suggestion, housed in a 
east dry. Dr. Harv 
study series of satontaphteally certified types. ‘his he did to the end. ` 
of Volume III., when the work was cut short by his premature death. 
Babooqueat!y. the collection was returned to the Cape, and this study set 
was lodged in seven cabinets of the-Kew pattern, under direction of 
Mr. Brown 
As nothiog was being done for the collection, not even sublimating 
the typica cal study-set to prevent insect raids, Professor MacOwan, who 
was then living in Graham's Town, addressed Sir Philip Wodehouse on 
the subject in 1867, pointing out thgt nothing had been done for its 
preservation. The collection was no longer in charge of Dr. Brown, 
whose office of Colonial aei had been abolished, and it appeared to 
be nobody's cc to es anything for it, as Mr, Trimen of the South 
African Museum refused to take it in charge. Professor MaeOwan 
offered to fouss it at his own expense under control of the Albany: 
Museum, and to supply the needful cabinets at his own charges. The 
reply was that it was not — to transfer the collection to the 
Eastern Provinces. East and West differences "were then Au pro- 
nounced. The collection was AER placed in charge of Mr. Jam 
MeGibbon, the gardener, but when Sir Henry Barkly leer Sir 
m Wodehouse, Mr. MacOwan, knowing him to be a well-informed 
tan sm renewed his application. Sir Henry erii without 
up to the mark = occasional inspectio: 
In February 1881, Mr. MacO wan was S aoai curator, in addition, 
xs to e dn duty of director of the Botanic Gardens, Nine new cabinets were 
