Notes
- 1) Von Siebold mentions in his Flora Japonica (Siebold & Zuccarini, 1835-1841: 183) that the fruits of Kerria japonica (L.)DC. was depicted from a specimen in the herbarium of Adatzi Tsiozin, a botanist in Tokyo. There are two specimens of Kerria japonica (L.)DC. collected by a Japanese collector, one by Keiske and one from the so-called Herbarium Jedoense. Does this mean that this herbarium may have been in the possession of Adatzi Tsiozin or even collected by him ?
- 2) Von Siebold was given these books by Okochi Sonsin. The first two volumes are written by Shimada Mitsufusa and published in 1759. The author of the other six volumes was Ono Ranzan and published in 1763.
- 3) The plants given by Ishii Soken belonged to the objects packed in the two cases, which Von Siebold had to return to the Rijksherbarium in 1837. Von Siebold has returned these plants to the Rijksherbarium together with the plants he had taken with him to Japan (letter August 15, 1864).
- 4) A list of plants given by Bürger to Von Siebold is present in the archives of the Ruhr University in Bochum and may be related with this gift (Schmidt, 1989: 176.). Bürger not only gave Von Siebold Japanese plants when he was in Leiden, but also earlier, in 1838, he had sent Von Siebold plants. Or did these plants go to the Rijksherbarium? (Kalkman, 1987, appendix 3: 4). In 1842 Von Siebold wrote (Kalkman, 1987, appendix 3: 8-9): “Bürger escaped from me to Java. He has however received my letter in which I ask for the remaining cases with dried plants”. Because he owes me he will try even more to balance our account by an equal shipment of plants”.
- 5) (5) According to the Rijksherbarium annual report for the year 1839, Von Siebold donated ca. 1,000 plants collected by Bunge to the Rijksherbarium (Blume, 1840).
- 6) These plants will now be housed in Munich. When Zuccarini was in Leiden in 1842 (Zuccarini 1844: 431) he could buy 800 Japanese plants (Kalkman, 1987, appendix 3: 9). As at that time also Bürger visited the Netherlands it may well be that he had sold these plants to Zuccarini. These will now be housed in the Munich herbarium as well.
- 7) Also in 1873 the heirs of the Dutch pharmacist T.D. Vrijdag Zijnen (1799-1863) donated a collection of c. 600 Japanese plants.
- 8) That year also J. Kickx from Ghent, Count H.-F. de Jaubert in Paris, Asa Gray in Boston, Inspector Effner in Munich, Sehlmeyer in Cologne, the botanical museum in Karlsruhe and the grand-ducal Museum at Oldenburg received Japanese plants.
- 9) According to the annual report for 1858/1859, Siebold again was given plants from the Rijksherbarium, it was however not stated whether these were Japanese (Blume, 1859).
- 10) For the preparation of the Flora Japonica Von Siebold gave many specimens to Zuccarini in Munich. These specimens were probably not duplicate collections and originated from his Japanese collection he kept at his house on the Rapenburg until 1837, and from the collections Bürger had given him when he was visiting the Netherlands.