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1789, and the expedition was undoubtedly the most thoroughly 
equipped one of its kind up to that date. In fact it is doubt- 
ful if any similar expedition had previously been dispatched 
by any nation, with the same objects in view. Very many 
voyages had previously been made for geographic and com- 
mercial purposes by the navigators of Spain, Portugal, England, 
Holland, and France, but the more purely scientific aspects of 
exploration had been ignored or largely subordinated to more 
practical matters. An account of the expedition has been given 
by Novo,^ whose work I have not seen, but it is said by Safford ® 
to be greatly condensed and is hence of comparatively little value. 
In spite of the thorough equipment of the expedition, the time 
occupied, nearly five years, and the known industry and effec- 
tiveness of some of its staff, notably the botanists Thaddeus 
Haenke and Luis Nee, the expedition proved to be peculiarly 
barren of published results. 
Enormous collections of botanic material were made by Haenke 
and Nee, much of which is still extant. Haenke’s collection 
was sent to Prague, Haenke himself having died in South 
America in 1817. In 1825 Presl undertook the publication 
of his pretentious work entitled “Reliquiae Haenkeanae,” which 
extended over the years 1825 to 1836, but which was never 
finished, only one volume and a portion of the second being 
printed. The most complete set of Haenke’s botanic material 
is still preserved at Prague, in part in the “Museum Kralovstvi 
Ceskeho,” and in part in the University Herbarium in that 
city, while more or less duplicate material has been dis- 
tributed to other institutions, the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hof- 
museum, Vienna, the Kgl. Botanisches Museum, Munich, the 
Kgl. Botanisches Museum, Berlin, and the Bernhardi Her- 
barium, now the property of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 
St. Louis, Missouri. Scattered specimens are to be found in 
the DeCandolle Herbarium, and the Delessert Herbarium, both 
in Geneva, the Rijks Herbarium, Leiden, and doubtless in other 
European botanic institutions. Haenke’s botanic material, to 
a greater or less degree, has been accessible to various European 
specialists, and his specimens are constantly cited in monographs. 
Nee, however, was less fortunate in the disposition of his 
material, which was deposited in the herbarium of the Jardin 
* La vuelta al mundo por las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida al man do 
del Capitan de Navio Don Alejandro Malaspina, desde 1789 a 1794. Publi- 
cado con una introduccion en 1885 por el Teniente de Navio Don Pedro 
de Novo y Colson. 
•Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 28. 
