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 Vlenna 



Ans. Naples, Manh (Manheim ? E.D.) 



Leipzig Dec. 29, 1^7 



Most honored Priend t 



Bernhardl, whose he^bariun is irr your possession, Nashorn on 

 Sept. 1, 1?7^ and died. on May 15,1850. He was a prussian Medicinalrat 

 ( verbatim, a nedical counceller, an honorary title sriven by various Ger- 

 man, state governnents to dlstlnguished doctorswithin their states, E.D..)V 

 Professor on the medical faculty of the university of Erfurt , d i re c t or 

 of the botanical garden there» member of the Electoral Academy of Mainz 

 (the title of the ruler of the Mainz area was called Kurfürst i.e. elec- 

 tor.E.D. ) (probably fron 1800 on) . With the deconnissioning of the Uni- 

 versity of Erfurt (I8l6) he became a pensionei% presided, however,under 

 an agreement with the government over the botanical garden alnost to the 

 end of»his life.. There is complete darkness about the years of study , 

 travels, etc. 



cultivation in the Erfurt garden "duting 50 years, and eertalnly the great 

 majority of all Speeles present in German gardens. 2) also German plants 

 collected by hinseif and. acquired throunrh exchange with recognized bota- 

 nists of Gernany,as well as purchased collections, e.g. Punk, Schleicher», 

 etc.3) Poreigners (plants, E.B. ) accumulated through purchase. Within these 

 E®it^Ktjrs[Mxx purchased collections are all plants, which have been de - 

 clared Originals (verbatim Translation: . H f irsts 11 E.D..) Rinthe travel as- 

 sociation by Stendal and Hochstetten and later Hohenacher ; f ron the 

 collections of ^ 



The herbarlum contains* all of the garden plants, which were und er 



