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sent the following year. The manuscript of the "Auctuarium," 

 completed by Rumphius in 1701, a few months before his death, 

 was copied at Batavia and sent to Holland in 1704. This im r 

 portant manuscript remained in the archives of the Dutch East 

 India Company until 1736, when the company granted permis- 

 sion to Professor J. Burman to prepare it for printing, the six 

 volumes appearing between 1741 and 1750 and volume seven, 

 the "Auctuarium," in 1755. 



The general title of the published work, taken from volume 

 three, is as follows: 



Georgii Everhardi Rumphii, | Med. Doct. Hanavensis, Mercatoris Sen- 

 ioris, & in Amboina Consulis, nomine | Plinii Indici Celebris, & Membri 

 Inlustris Societatis Aca- | demiae Naturae Curiosum Germaniae, | Herba- 

 rium | Amboinense, | Plurimas complectens Arbores, Frutices, Herbas, Plan- 

 tas terrestres & aquaticas, j quae in Amboina, | et ajdacentibus reperiuntur 

 insulis, | Adcuratissime descriptas juxa earum formas, cum diversis denom- 

 inationibus, | cultura, usu, ac virtutibus. | Quod & insuper exhibit | varia 

 insectorum animaliumque genera, | Plurima cum naturalibus eorum figuris 

 depicta. | Omnia magno labore ac studio multos per annos conlecta, | & 

 duodecem conscripta libris. | Nunc primum in lucem edita, & in Latinum 

 sermonem versa, | Cura & Studio | Joannis Burmanni, | Med. Doct. et in 

 Horto Medico Amstelaedamensi Professoris | Botanici, Academiae Caesareae 

 Naturae Curiosum Socii; | Qui varia adjecit Synonyma, suasque Observa- 

 tiones.* 



Volume seven, the Auctuarium, issued five years after volume 

 six was printed, bears the following title page : 



Georgii Everhardi Rumphii | * * * | Herbarii | Amboinensis | 

 Auctuarium, | Reliquas complectens Arbores, Frutices, ac Plantas, | quae 

 in Amboina, et adjacentibus demum repertae sunt insulis, | Omnes accu- 

 ratissime descriptae, & delineatae juxta earum | formas, cum diversis In- 

 dicis denominationibus, | cultura, usu, ac viribus; | Nunc primum in lucem 

 editum, & in Latine sermonem versum, | Cura & Studio | Joannis Bur- 

 manni |***| Q u j V aria adjecit Synonyma, suasque Observationes.f 



In the present paper the Auctuarium has been consistently 

 cited as volume seven of the Herbarium Amboinense. 



While Rumphlus's fame rests largely on the Herbarium Am- 

 boinense, this by no means represents all that he accomplished. 



* 1 (1741)* 1-200, t. 1-82, preface, introduction, etc.; 2 (1741) 1-270, 

 t. 1-87; 3 (1743) 1-218, t. 1-U1; 4 (1743) 1-154, t. 1-82; 5 (1847) 1-492, 

 t. 1-181* ; 6 (1750) 1-256, t. 1-90. The title page varies somewhat in the 

 different volumes and between editions one and two, a second edition, not 

 essentially different from the first, having been issued in 1750. The Dutch 

 title page is not here repeated. 



t(1755) 1-74, t. 1-29, Index Universalis [1-20]. The Dutch title page 

 is not here repeated. 



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