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Letter of Johann August Schultes from 6 June 1821 to Schlechtendal, at that time Head Curator of the 'Königliches Preussisches Herbarium' in Berlin. -Schlechtendal's letter collection in the herbarium of the University Halle-Wittenberg.
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Tkach, N. & Röser, M. 2024. The naming of plants from the Humboldt and Bonpland voyage to the Americas, a putatively new genus of Philippi from Chile and Müller's botanical explorations in Australia in the light of Schlechtendal's correspondence (herbarium HAL). Schlechtendalia 41: 26-42.
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794-1866) was...
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... (see above). After Willdenow's death in 1812, he took care of Willdenow's personal herbarium, which was acquired by the Berlin Botanical Garden in 1818. The role of the elder Schlechtendal emerges from a letter from Schultes to Schlechtendal (fil.) dated 6 June 1821, who was still Head Curator of the Royal Herbarium in Berlin at that time ( Fig. 1): "Entschuldigen Sie die Freyheit, die ich mir nehme Sie mit einem Schreiben zu behelligen, durch die Gnade die Ihr Vater für mich hatte, indem er mir ein einem Schreiben dd. [= de dato] 7. Jun., in welchem er mir gütigst seine Bemerkungen über die neuen Gattungen u. Arten der VI. u. VII. Classe im Herbarium des sel. [= seligen] ...
