OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 



MAY 1962 EDITION 



GSA FPMR (,A\ CFR) 101-11.6 



UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 



Memorandum 



to : File with 1 ibra ry copy of Stickmann^s date: 19 Sept 1974 



"Herbarium Amboinense" (1754) 

 from : D# Nicolson 



subject: Acceptance of Rumphian Names 



At my request Dr. Robert Brooks reviewed the translation of ",.. 



acquiescere. . .plantis evidentissimis , multasque seponere " This 



simply means "to accept the most obvious plants and to set aside 

 many." This really does not mean much and a reconsideration of the 

 entire paragraph leads Dr. Brooks to believe that what Stickmann is 

 saying is: 



1. This is a little work (opusculum), i.e., limited. 



2. I have matched as many Rumphian plates with names of plants 

 in the Linnaean Herbarium as possible. 



3. Many plants which are well described by Rumphius could not 

 be matched, Because this is only a limited work no Linnaean names 

 have been given to these and they (the Rumphian names) have been 

 neither accepted nor rejected but simply set aside for future study. 



In short, the entire paragraph may be understood as saying: 

 "Rumphius 1 "Herbarium Amboinense" arrived after editing of the 

 Species Plantarum and couldnotbe incorporated. I thought it 

 useful to compare the Rumphian plants with the Herbarium of Linnaeus 

 to connect the names. I give the obvious matches. I felt compelled 

 to leave many Rumphian names without Linnaean equivalents, not because 

 of Rumphius (who is second only to Rheede in describing plants in 

 the finest detail), but because this is only a little work." 



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