Author: REINWARDT, C.G.C.- ALS.- H. SCHLEGEL [recipient].-
Title: Personal letter in Dutch, dated 30 December 1848 [?] to Dr. Hermann Schlegel in which Reinwardt informs Dr. Schlegel that his contribution has been approved of by the 2nd Teyler's Genootschap in Haarlem and that it is now approved by the Direcors for publication. Schlegel's proposition to assist in the process of producing the plates for the contribution is accepted. Schlegel will receive an official notification of this decision.
Description: autograph. 4to sheet folded three times. [Meas. appr. 14 x 21 cm.]. 16 lines in autograph, signed 'C.G.C. Reinwardt', dated '30 Decbr 1848 [?]' (1 page of autograph text, 2 blank, 1 address side.). (ink somewhat acidified; address side with paper seal remnants, small corner torn off, some remains of glue.). 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. Dr. Hermann Schlegel [1804 - 1884] was a German natural history scientist with a preference for ornithology who was appointed at the Leyden Rijksmuseum voor Natuurlijke Historie as assistant under Director Temminck. Schlegel worked under Temminck for 33 years and upon the latter's death oin 1858 Schlegel became his successor. Due to his lack of academic credentials Schlegel was appointed 'ordinary' Director. The university of Leiden was of the opinion that Schlegel would have to answer to a full professor of Zoology as 'Director'. Schlegel was himself an excellent draughtsman and lithographer and a year after this letter he wrote a manual containing the rules to which a good natural history drawing should conform. Before Schlegel joined Temminck in Leiden he worked on the Fauna Japonica [1845 - 1850] with von Siebold.

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