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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
natural history, chemistry, and botany, pure and applied. The extracts 
from the letters given by Dr. Kronfeld bear on botany and horti¬ 
culture. That Joseph was well equipped by a careful training is 
evident from the numerous notes on the identity of species of plants 
which he examined in the various herbaria and gardens visited during 
his tour; these notes form a large proportion of the letters. 
Joseph left Vienna in May 1788 and visited Prague—where 
Ferdinand Bauer, the well-known plant-artist, made drawings for him 
of some pitcher-leaves from a lime,—Karlsbad, and Dresden, where 
he is much charmed with the gardens of the Elector (K.urf first), 
who is “a passionate botanist”; there are also some wonderful 
original drawings of plants in the library. At Leipzig John Hedwig, 
the microscopist, shows him the sexual organs of mosses and various 
points in plant anatomy, which throw doubt on some of the observa¬ 
tions of his compatriot Ingen-Houss ; of this, however, his father is 
warned to say nothing. Writing from Halle he mentions that 
Dr. J. It. Forster (who accompanied Captain Cook on his second 
voyage of discovery in the South Seas in 1772) had given him plants 
from Tahiti and elsewhere, and was hoping to succeed Scopoli as 
University Professor. At Berlin he is struck by the great woods of 
l J inus and other Conifers, of which he secures cones. He also meets 
young Willdenow (1705-1812) at the Botanic Garden—a very 
lovable young man, who concerns himself with the despatch of a 
number of rare living and dried plants which Joseph was sending. 
The Botanic Garden at Gottingen is the best he has seen on this 
journey, but the Blocksberg is not to be compared with the Austrian 
Alps. At Leyden Professor Bruymanns shows him man} r things of 
interest, including the herbaria of llauwolf, Brevnius, and Hermann, 
Bumphius’s original manuscript and drawings, and a volume of 
drawings of fungi by Clusius (1520-1009) beautifully painted; also 
Hermann Boerhaave’s (1008-1738) garden with a tine tulip-tree sown 
by Boerhaave himself, and duplicates from Gronovius’s herbarium. 
Jacquin reached London early in December 1788, and spent more 
than a year in England. The greater part of the brochure is a 
description of his botanical experiences and work in London. Here 
are his first impressions :—“ Nowhere is more to be seen and learnt 
in botany than here in England. The large number of helpful means 
of all kinds, which are open for everyone’s use, on the one hand, and 
the indescribable honour in which our science is held, on the other, 
make London in this respect the first place in the world. In the 
British Museum is an extraordinary number of herbaria of famous 
botanists of all nations, such as Plukenet, Bay, and others ; in Oxford 
are the herbaria of Morison, Dillenius, Bobart, and others. Banks 
has the greatest herbarium in the world, which includes those of 
Aublet, Miller, Swartz, and others. Dr. Smith has the herbariums 
of the elder and younger Linne, Konig, Ac. Add to this the great 
number of famous gardens and also the appreciation for botany, which 
is so general here. What an opportunity ! I will give you from 
time to time a detailed account of ail these. First let me give you 
an idea of Banks’s house which is the crown of all.” 
Then follows a description of Banks’s library arid herbarium in 
