Commentary on the names in Stickman 's 

 Herbarium Amboinense 

 by F. R, Fosberg 



The dissertations of the students of Linnaeus are mostly known to 

 botanists through the republication, often somewhat revised , in Linnaeus ' 

 series Amoenitates Academiciae. The originals appeared, usually singly 

 at the times they were defended by the students , and, as is true of many 

 present day graduate degree theses, their publication was rather obscure. 



They were regarded by Linnaeus as subject to revision and doubtless 

 •is s .perceded by the revisions and more formal publication in the 

 Amoenitates . Their authorship, and especially that of the new names that 

 first appeared in them, has been the subject of much argument and is even 

 now not a matter of complete agreement. According to Dr. William T. 

 Steam (personal conversation, 1970} they must be ascribed to Linnaeus 

 himself, as they were largely written by him and assigned to the students 

 to be defended publicly for the degree to which they aspired. Herriil 

 also adopted this view in his Interpretation of Rumphius Herbarium 



