Author: REINWARDT, C.G.C.- ALS.- Anonymous recipient.-
Title: Small autograph 10 line letter in Dutch in which Reinwardt agrees to the appointment for a meeting in Haarlem on May [?] 17 [1826?]. He would also appreciate it if mr. Huygens would be notified of this last agreement.
Description: No place, autograph, 1826. [?]. Large folio blank sheet meas. 19.5 x 32 cm., mounted on this sheet the small letter [meas. appr. 10 x 11.5 cm]. 10 lines in ink, signed 'C.G.Reinwardt' No date [Early June 1826??]. In original protective blank auction folder w. probably an auction number in blue crayon 'No. 479' top left and some pencil annots. & 4 lines in ink: 'Vooral plantkunde... No. 121 C.G.C.Reinwardt. Hoogleraar in de schei- en Plantenkunde, de natuurlijke Historie etc.' In pencil '1826'. DMB [Lindeboom], c. 1608 - 1610. Botany. Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt [1773 - Leiden 1854]. Appointed professor of Botany, chemistry and natural history at Harderwijk 11 June 1800. Professor at the Amsterdam Athenaeum from 1810. His real development as a scientist and botanist is directly linked with his work in the Dutch East Indies [1816 - 1821] , specifically the laying out of the Botanical Gardens which later grew into the world famous 's'Lands Plantentuin' at "Buitenzorg". Carl Ludwig Blume, who worked under Reinwardt was his successor , in 1823 he produced the rare catalogue of the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg. In his time there Reinwardt '...gave advice on agriculture, industry, education, on the regulation of vaccinations, and on many matters of the civil and military service. He travelled extensively in order to collect all kinds of naturalia (skeletons, skins, insects, shells, coral growths... he stayed in the Indies till the end of 1821. ..'Reinwardt returned to Leiden to be the successor of S.J.Brugmans as the Leiden professor for Botany, his inauguration being 22 May 1823. In 1831 he published a catalogue of the Leiden Hortus, counting 5600 species, the number of Chinese, Japanese and Australian specimina had grown substantially, not in the least through the offices of Phillipp Franz von Siebold. Reinwardt retired in 1845.

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