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Dates

f

the

Nova

enera"

f

Humboldt,onpland

nd

Kunth

By

JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART

Every student

f

systematic otany

s

familiarwith

the abbre-

viation

"

H.B.K.," and this at once brings to his mind the great

seven-volume work,

"

Nova genera et species plantarum," om-

moinlycredited to Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth; although

the editorial work upon it was wholly Kunth's,and Baron von

Humboldt's

only

contribution

ppears

to have

been

the introduc-

toryessay. This

work

was the most extensive

of

several which

constituted he botanyof Humboldt and Bonpland's "Voyage,"

and different

rom

he

rest

n

the

language employed,

his

being

written

n

Latin,

the others

exclusively

n

French.

Having occasion recently

o

determine he date of publication

of a certain ortionof this work,and knowingthatas it appeared

in partsthe title-page ates could notbe depended upon, under-

took to ascertain hepagination nd dates of all the original fas-

cicles.

The

only.recent

reference

o this

subject

which could be

foundwas

in a

paper published

n

the Journal

f

Botany

for

June,

I

90

I.

*

The

authors

of this

paper ppear to have

been

nvestigat-

ing the facts urrounding he publicationof the zo6logical portion

of Humboldt and Bonpland's "Voyage," and to have accumu-

lated incidentally onsiderable nformationelating o the botan-

ical volumes;

and

a

debt

of

gratitude

s

certainlydue them

for

placing

theirresultswithin he reach of

all.

Messrs. Sherbornand Woodward seem to have given us an

accurate

and

fairly omplete

account

of the

"

Plantes

equinox-

iales,"

"Melastomes,"

"

Rhexies,"

"Mimoses "and

"

Graminees"

of the Voyage reports,

ut as much

cannot be said of their

ttempt

to elucidate

the

"

Nova

genera."

On one

page they give

a sum-

mary

of the

seven

volumes, showing

that

these

consist f 55, 5 ,

57,

39,

54,

68

and 66 sheets

or

signatures respectively;

on

the

following ages they

ist

the fascicles

s

announced from ime to

time

n the

"

Bibliographie

de la

France,"

from

which

it would

*

Sherborn,

C.

D.,

&

Woodward, B. 13. The Dates of Humboldt and Bonpland's

"

Voyage." Jour.

Bot.

39

202-205. Je. I9OI.

585


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586

BARNHART: DATES OF THE NOVA

GENERA OF

appear

that the volumes

contained about

89, 98,

9I,

63, 86, io6

and

I I9

signatures espectively; after

which they merelyremark,

"

[The sheeting of

the

French records

is a mystery to both

of us]."

It is well

known,

or

ought

to

be, that the

"

Nova genera"

appeared simultaneously n two editions,

one of folio size, the

other n quarto. It is not so well known,

except to those who

have tried to

verify eferences

n

the wrong

edition, hat

the two

differ idely n pagination the only printedmention of this fact

which have

seen

is

a brief note by Dr. Otto Kuntze,* and he

does notseem to

have

had access to

a copy of

the

fourth olume

of the folio

edition. The matter n the two editions s the same;

they were ssued

in

the same

number

of fascicles

36),

and at the

same time; and theplateswerealike in the

two editions, xcept

for he

width of

the

margin; but,the quarto

page being

much

smaller,

he text extended over a

greaternumber

of

pages,

so

that

each

quarto

fascicle onsisted f

many

more

pages

than

the corre-

sponding foliofascicle, nd the quartovolumes are thicker han

the

folio

ones.

Messrs.

Sherborn

and

Woodward described

the

quartovolumes; nearly

ll of their

uotations

from he

"

French

records refer

o the folio

edition;

it

was for

his

reason that

they

were

mystified.

The

"

Bibliographie

de la

France," upon

which

they

were

obliged

to

rely

almost

wholly

for

the

list

they give,

repeatedlymentions

he

quarto edition, nd

in

many

ases

specifies

the

"

sheeting of

the

quarto parts;

it is

difficulto

see how

they

could

overlook this

fact, lthough

t

may

well

have

added

to their

perplexity.

The folio edition

seems to

have been

prepared

so that

sub-

scribers to the entire series of

"

Voyage

"

reports might

have

them

of uniform

ize;

the

quarto edition,

hat botanists

might

secure this

particular

work

at a

reduced

price.

The

latter, rob-

ably

because

of its

cheapness

and

consequent

greater ccessibility

to

the

average

student,

s

the one almost

invariably

cited

by

botanists;

it is

the

one

always

referred

o

by

Kunth

himself,

n

his later

works.

While

convenient,

his

practice

is not

strictly

logical; for, s the fascicleswere issued withoutbreaking igna-

tures,

hose numbered

correspondingly

ever

contained

precisely

*

Kuntze,

0.

Rev.

Gen. 32: 156.

28

S. 1898.


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HUMBOLDT, BONPLAND AND

KUNTH

587

the same text in

the folio and in the quarto form.

In

many

instances,n order to

determinewith exactness

the

date

of

publi-

cation of

a new genus

or

species, t would

be

necessary

o find

ut

whether t first

ppeared

in

a folio

or a

quarto

fascicle.

A

table

showing thegenera and

species concerned,

with

the

original

place

and date of

publication,mightprove

useful

n

determining

ome

question

of priority; but such a

list would be

of

very doubtful

value until

we are

more

certain than

we can be at

present

of

the

exact pagination f everyfascicle. It is very mportant,s men-

tionedby Sherborn

nd Woodward, that any one

possessing the

originalfascicles, r

any of them, hould

submit them to

some

bibliographer

who

would

publish a

careful

escription

f

hem;

but

it

must not be

forgotten hat contemporaryvidence

s

thze

est,

or

a

fasciclemay appear to

be

in

its original

form,

when

actually

-altered n

important articulars.

Before

proceeding

to

a consideration

f the

probable

contents

of

each

part,

t

may be well to

take

a

general

survey

of

the

pagi-

nation, ignatures, tc.,of the completedvolumes. In this con-

nection t

must be

remembered hat

the

quadruple title-page

n

each

volume took an

entire uarto signature or two

folio

ones,

while

these were counted in

numbering either

he

signatures

nor

-the

pages. In some

cases the French

journal

seems to

have

counted

the title-pages n giving

the number f

signatures n a

-part, n

other cases, not; and

the uncertaintyn this

respect,

togetherwithtne

fact hat the

title-pageswere

probablypublished

with

the

first art of most of the

volumes,but with he

last part

of one or two, causes most of the trouble in definitelyssigning

certain

pages

to

each fascicle. It must

also be

borne

n

mindthat

a

single sheet forms

ourfoliopages, but

eight of quarto size, so

that

while

the

quarto

volumes and fascicleshave

more pages than

-the

folio,

hey have fewer

ignatures. The

plates and title-page

dates

are

the same in both

editions;

it is

only in the text that

theydiffer.

T. P.

VOL. FOLIO

TEXT. QUARTO

TEXT. PLATES. DATE.

I.

(8),

xlvi, (2),

302

pp.

(8), lViii, (2),

377 pp. I-96.

I8I5

(2),

87Y2 (-z a-i, k-rn, 1-76) sign.

(I),

5434 (=a-h, 1-48)

sign.

II.

(8),

324 pp.

(8), 404

(2) pp. 97-192.

I817

(2),

8i

sign.

(I),

503Y

(=I-51)

sign.


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588

BARNHART:

DATES

OF

THE

NOVA

GENERA

OF

III. (8), 356

pp.

(8),

456 pp.

193-300.

Isis

(2),

89

sign.

(I),

57

sign.

IV.

(8),

247 pp.

(8),

312

pp.

301-412. 1820

(2), 62

sign.

( ),

39 sign.

V.

(8), 338

(2), pp.

(8), 432

pp.

413-512. 1821

(2),

85

sign.

(

), 54 sign.

VI. (8),

420 (2) pp.

(8), 542 pp.

513-600.

I823

(2),

I05'2

(-- I-I06)

sign.

(i),

6734

=i-68)

sign.

VIr. (8), 399

pP.

(8),

506 pp.

60I-700.

1825

(2),

Ioo

sign.

(i),

65'4

(-I-66)

sign.

VOLUME I

This

volume,

n

the folio

form, resents

ittle

difficulty.

t is

truethat

fasc.

I and

2

are

noticed

together

in

the B.

F.*

for

3

F.

I8I6,

while

t is

quite likelythat

they

were

separately

published,

one

or bothof

them

before the end of the

year

IIS5

(the

title-

page

date).

As

we have

absolutely

no

data indicating

he

pages

at which

they were

separated,

however;

and as

I

have no

strong

evidence

even

in

support

of

the

suppositionthat

they

appeared

separately,

asc.

1-2

will

be treated here as a

"

double

number."

The fasciclesforming olume I foliowere noticed s follows:

Fasc.

1-2.

44 sign,44pl.

B.

F.

3

F.

i8i6.

it

3-

20

25

p1.

B.

F.

ii

My.

t

i

4.

25Y

"

27.p/.

B. F.

3I Au.

In all,

89

2

signatures

and

96

plates,

precisely

as

the folio

volume

is

described

bove,

and we

need have no

hesitation n

as-

signing

data as

follows:

Fasc.

1-2.

T.-p., pp.

i-xlviii,

-120, pl.

i-44.

Ja. i8i6

(or

D.

1815 ?)

it

3.

Pp.

121-200,pl.

45-69.

My.

"

4. Pp. 201-302,pl.

70-96. Au.

"

The

B. F.

gives

no

descriptions

f

fasc.

I-4

in

the

quarto

form,

nd

the

following

ivision s

simply provisional

ne,

based

upon

the

supposition

that the

corresponding uarto and

folio

parts

contained

approximately

he same

matter:

a

supposition

which s

warranted

y

the

knownfacts n the

case of

many

of

the

later

fascicles.

Fasc.

1-2.

T.-p., pp. i-lx,

I-152,pl.

I-44.

Ja.

i816 (or

D.

I8I5 ?)

"

3. Pp.

I53-256,pl.

45-69. My.

i

4-

Pp.

257-377,

P/.

70-96. Au.

*

In

the

following

discussion the references

to the

"

Bibliographie de la France

"

will

be

so

frequent hat

its title will be

abbreviated to

"

B. F."

t

Not

2

My.

as

given

by

Sherborn

and

Woodward.


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7/15

590

BARNHART:

DATES

OF THE

NOVA

GENERA OF

QUARTO

Fasc.

5.

T.-p.,

pp.

I-96,

pl.

97-121.

Ap.

I8I7

it

6.

PP.

97-192,pl.

122-146.

D.

cc

7.

PP.

I93-280,jpl.

147-i68.

F. i8i8

CC 8.

Pp.

28I-406

(+?),pl.

169-202.

Je.

C

VOLUME

III

The

third

volume consisted of

five

fascicles, nos.

9-I

3;

although plates

193-202

had

appeared with

fasc.

8.

The

B.

F.

givesthe data for

hese

fascicles,

n

folio,

s

follows:

Fasc. 9.

20

signatures,

25/p5a/es.

3 0.

I8I8.

CC

IO.

I9

C

15

c

13

F.

I8I9.

II.

I9

CC

25

i

I7

J1.

C

I2. I8

CC

25

"

27 N.

1 3.

I5

9

I

I

Mr. I 820.

The

number f

signatures

grees

exactlywith

the

description

of the

volume

given

above,

so that we

have no hesitation n

decid-

ing upon the

pagination.

We have

here mention of

only

99

plates,

however,

while the volume

contained

io8,

one of

which

was issued twice, s willbe mentionedfurther n ; and this,with

the distinct

tatementof the

B.

F.

that

fasc.

13

completed

the

third

volume,

s

additional

evidence that the

B.

F.

was

correct

n

assigning34 plates

to

fasc. 8.

If

more evidence s

desired,

t is

not

lacking.

The

"

Allgemeine

Repertorium"

of

Leipzig,

in

its

first

mention f

this work,*

reviews he

folio

edition s

far s

Vol.

III, page

I48,

plate

2412;

evidently

to

the end of

fasc.

io

("

i8i8,"

by

the

way).

Now if

fasc.

io

ended with

plate

242,

and contained

I5

plates,

t

must have

begun

with

plate

228

;

if

fasc.

9

ended with plate 227, and contained 25

plates,

t must

have

begun

with

plate

203;

but thevolume

began

with

plate

I

93;

therefore,

lates I93-202

must have

appeared

with

fasc.

8,

and

the B. F.

must

be

correct

n

assigning 34

plates

to that

fascicle-

or,

if it

contained

only 24,

there must have been

25 plates

n

fasc.

IO,

instead

of

I

5

as

stated. At

least,

the

B.

F.

is

consistent

with

itself

n

this

matter,

nd I

prefer

o

accept

its statements ntil

hey

are

proven incorrect.

Plate

n10.

16

was

published

n

fasc.

9,

the

name

upon

it

read-

ing "A ragoa juniperina."

When thisspecieswas reached n the

text,

however,

n

fasc.

IO

(page

I21

of

the

folio,

page I56

of the

*Allg. Repert.

8i93:

132-136.


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HUMBOLDT,

BONPLAND AND KUNTH 591

quarto), it was called "Aragoa

cupressina";

and later

not

with

fasc. IO,

but

probably

with

fasc. I

3),

a new

plate

numnbered

2I6"

appeared.

The new

plate

bore the corrected

name,

and

upon

it

the

original

detail

figures

were

replaced by entirely

ew

ones.

Fasc.

9

contained- he

descriptions

f certainnew

species

of

Nicotiana and Heliotropium,

hich

had

been

published by

Leh-

mann, underthe

same or in some cases

under

different

ames,

only a

short time

before.

This

greatly annoyed Kunth,

who

thought hat Lehmann shouldhave awaited the appearance ofthis

portion f the

"

Nova genera before

ssuing

his

work.

A

letter

written y Kunth in this

connection,

with

Lehmann's reply,may

be found n the first olume

of

Flora.*

In notingfasc. 9-13, the

B. F. mentions the quarto edition

several times,but gives the numberof signatures nly n the case

of

fasc. io, whentherewere

twelve.

There is

littledoubt of the

pagination,however, nd we may, sum up this volume thus:

FOLIO TEXT. QUARTO TEXT. PLATES.

DATE.

Fasc.

9. T.-p., pp. 1-72. T.-p.,

pp. I-96. 203-227. S. i8i8.

"

IO.

Pp. 73-148.

PP.

97-192. 228-242.

F.

i8i9.

"

II.

PP.

149-224.

PP.

193-288.

243-267.

Ji.

"

12.

Pp.

225-296.

Pp.

289-384.

268-292. N.

"

13.

Pp.

297-356-

PP.

385-456. 293-300, 2I6

bis.

Mr.

I820.

VOLUME IV

Volume

IV

comprised

fasc.

14-I8,

the last of which was

not

given

to

the

public

until late

in the

year I820; although,

s

we

shall

see,

the entire ext

was in

print,

nd to a

limited xtent

ac-

cessible,

two

years

earlier.

According

to

Sherborn

and

Wood-

wood, fasc. I4 containedVol. III, pp. 4I7-456, and Vol. IV, pp.

1-72.

It is

apparent

that

they

were led

to

this

conclusion

by

some

evidence hat

this fascicle nded

with

page 72 (which

is

true

of the

quarto);

but as

72

pp.

in

their

quarto

edition

made

only

9

signatures,

nd the

B. F.

stated that

fasc.

I4

consisted

of

14 sig-

natures, hey

decided that this fascicle

must have contained

he

last

five

ignatures which

would be pp.

4I7-456

of the

quarto)

of Vol.

III

-in

other

words,

their

confusion

of the

two

edi-

tions n

this

case led them nto

grave

error.

The

B. F.

distinctly

states thatfasc. I3 completed he thirdvolume,and therecan be

no doubt

that this was

the case.

*

Flora,

:

60I-607. 20 D. i8i8.


9/15

592

BARNHART: DATES OF THE NOVA GENERA OF

Sherborn

nd

Woodward,

n

describing

ascicle

5,

say of the

plates: "25 pls. 326-340." This is plainly either clerical or a

typographical rror;

the

25 plates

were

nos. 326-349,

two

plates

bearing

the

number 332."

The B. F. gives

us

quite completedata for

his

volume:

Fasc. 14. Folio, 14 sign. Quarto, 9 sign.

2S5P5ales.

15 Ap. I820.

15.

"

i6

sign.

"

iO sign.

25

"

27 My.

i6.

"

12

sign.

" 9

sign. 24

"

22

JI.

17.

"

12

sign. " 8 sign. 24

"

i6 S.

iS.

" 9

sign. 4 sign. 13 24 D.

"

The

"

13

"

plates

credited o

fasc. i8

probably hould be

i5

and

in

counting

the

folio

ignatures

the

title-pages,

which in

this

case

seem

to have

come

out with he last

fascicle of the

volume

instead

of

the

first,

musthave

been reckoned

s

one

instead

of

two.

This

gives

the

following ummary.

FOLIO TEXT.

QUARTO

TEXT. PLATES.

DATE.

Fasc. 14.

PP.

1-56.

Pp.

1-72.

301-32S.

AP.

1820.

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57-120.

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332-349.

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S.

I8.

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217-247,

t.-P.

Pp.

289-312,

t.-P.

398-412.

D.

It

will

be noted

that these five fascicles

followedone

another

with

unprecedented apidity;

and

"thereby hangs

a tale."

On

the 26th of

October, I8I8,

in orderto fix the date

of

publication

of this

volume,

Kunth

presented

a

complete copy

of

the

text to

the

Academy

of Sciences

of Paris. It consistedof loose

sheets

of

the

folio

edition,

nd had a

manuscript itle-page,

n

which

was

set forth hefact hatthe printing as begun in September, 8I7,

and

completed

in

September,

8I8.

At thistimethe

publication

of Volume

III had

only just begun,

and

Kunth had no

idea

of

offering

olume

IV

to

the

public

until

t

was

reached in its

turn

after he completion

f

Volume

III;

in

fact,

he

plates

of

Volume

IV had

not

been

engraved.

Yet

Kunth hurried he

text

through

the

press,

nd took

this method f

securing

ts

advance

publication.

Henri

Cassini,

one

of

the members

f

the

Academy,

had

de-

voted

his leisure

"

for he

past eight

or nine

years,"

as he

tells

us,

to the studyof the Compositae, nd was at that timerecognized

as the

foremost

iving authority upon

that

group

of

plants.

Volume

IV of the

"Nova

genera" comprised

the

Compositae,


10/15

HUMBOLDT,

BONPLAND AND KUNTH

593

and the

Compositae

nly;

was it

any wonder,

hen,

hat

Cassini

re-

garded

the

"

extraordinary recipitancy

of

Kunth,

n

presenting

this

copy

to the

Academy,

as a

decidedlypersonal

affair

Cassini

criticised

Kunth

for

ssuing

the

work n this

way,

in

loose

sheets,

with

manuscript itle,

rid without

lates;

in

the folio

form, oo,

"

qui

n'est probablement

onsacre

qu'a

un

petit

nombre d'exem-

plaires,"

while

the quarto

is

the one more

generally

distributed

and

usually quoted.

But

especially

did he

protestagainst

the

recognitionfthismethod fpublication, s it contained no guar-

antee

that the work as

finally

ssued to the

public

would

be identi-

cal

withthe

copy presented

o the

Academy.

Kunth

insisted that Volume IV was

printed

simply

because

thefundswereavailable and the

manuscript

ad been

completed

or

several

years;

he

pledged

his honor

that he

work

as

finally

ssued

to the

public

would be

identical

with the

copy presented

to the

Academy,

except

for he alterationof one

short

and

unimportant

paragraph

to which

Cassini

had

objected;

and he

further

molli-

fied the latterby presentinghim with a copy of thevolume in

dispute,

on

the first

f

December,

I8I8. On

his

part Cassini

agreed

to

accept

the

latter

date as the

actual

date of

publication.

A delicate

question

is here involved. We

cannot

nsist

hat

this

volume was

not

published

n

I8I8

because

it was not

offered

or

sale

at

that

time,

for some

works whose due

publication s

never

questioned

Linnaeus'

"

Hortus

Cliffortianus

is

a

famous

exam-

ple) were never

offered or ale

until

t

length

second-hand

opies

came into the market.

It

is

universally greed that

as

long as

all copies of a printedworkremain n thehands of theauthor,ts

status

s

the same

as

that

of a

manuscript,

ven if

he

permits t

to

be

inspectedby

others.

But

does the

distribution

f

one or

two

copies

constitute

ublication

The

question

here

s

almost den-

tical

with that

involving

the date of

publication

of

Fournier's

"

Mexicanas

Plantas,

Pars

II.

Gramineae."

This

bears

the

date

I886

upon

the

title-page,

nd was

not

accessible to

the

general

public

unitil

hat

year;

but

Bentham

had a

copy

of

the

text as

early

as

i88i,

and

repeatedly

ited

t;

nor

s

it

certain

hat

other

complimentaryopieswere not issued in advance.

We come now

to consider

the

single

change

in

Volume

IV

after t was first

rinted.

A

note,

near

the

bottom

of

page

243,


11/15

594

BARNHART:

DATES

OF THE

NOVA GENERA

OF

in

the " addenda

et

corrigenda,"

ead originally

s follows:

"Pars

hujus

operis,quae

de

Compositarum

amilia ractat; jam

ante

tres

fere nnos

a

me

finita,

llo

tempore,

clarissimo

Henrico Cassini,

leviter

uidem,

ob

magnam

specierum

t

generum

opiam

nspecta

est.

Quo

factum

est,

ut

nomina et characteresgenerum

nos-

trorum

novorum

non

retinens,

mpherephis

peciei

tertiae,

n her-

bario

illustr.Jussieu sservatae,

anquam

distinctogeneri,

nomen

Centhratheri

mponeret."

Immediately

nd

indignantly

id

Cas-

sini resent his mplied reflectionpon his honor, nd brand t as

a falsehood;

and

although

Kunth maintained

hatno offense

had

been

intended

y

the

original

taement,

he

objectional

paragraph

was

modifieduntil,

s finally resented

o the

subscribers

o the

"

Nova genera,"

it

took

this harmlessform:

" Pars hujus

operis

quae

de Compositarum

familia

git, am

exeunte

anno

I8I

5 a me

ad finemperducta,

nonnisimense

septembre

I8I7

typis

describi

coepta est,

absoluta

eodem mense I8I8,

vulgata I820.

Interea

celeberrimus

Cassinius,

observationum

mearum

i11scius,omposi-

tas summadiligentia araquesagacitatescrutari ontinuavit ectio-

nesque

et

genera

proponere:

quo

factum

st,

ut

eorum complura

diversis nomninibus

Cassinio

et me

nuncupata

exstent; quod

semper

usu

veniet, quotiescunque

duo

in

plantas

examinandas

aeque

exercitati

otanici

andem familiam nvestiganteneraque

in

ea

instituere

ecesse

udicant

et instituunt.

Ampherephis

pecies

duas

in herbario

Huniboldtiano

bservavi,

ertiam

n

herbario

Jus-

siaeano,

cui

nomen

a me inventum unc

stylo

cerussato

adscribere

haud

neglexi,

Celeberrimus

Cassinius

vero non animadvertens,

opinor, d nornen bi am a me appositum sse, plantaeJussiaeanae

nomen Centratherimposuit."

Those wishing

o learn

further

articulars

f this

controversy

should

consult

the

papers

by

Cassini

and Kunth, published

in

volume

89

of the

"Journal

de

physique,

de chimie et

d'histoire

naturelle;

*

and

those who do

not

acknowledge

that

the volume

was

published

until issued

in

parts

in

I820,

should

not overlook

*

Cassini,

H.

Analyse

critiquet raisonnee

u quatrieme

olumede l'ouvrage

de

M.

Kunth,

ntitule,

Nova

genera

et

s.Pecies

lan/arunm.

Jour.

phys.

89:

5-33.

Jl.

I8I 9.

Kunth,

C. S. A

une article e

M. Cassini,

ayant pour

itre:

Analyse

ritique

t

raisonnee

u

quatrilme

volume u Nova

genera

t

species

plantarumequinoctialium.

Jour.

phys.

89:

278-284.

0. I8I9.


12/15

HUMBOLDT, BONPLAND

AND KUNTH 595

the fact hat

the

new genera

were all listed

and criticised

y

Cas-

sini n this" Journalde physique during he precedingyear.

VOLUME V

This

volume consistedof fasc.

I9-23,

and the

B. F. furnishes

quite a complete account of them,except

in

the

case of

quarto

fasc. 2I, whichprobably

was

composed

of

I

2

signatures.

Fasc. I 9. Folio,

i

6 sign. Quarto,

9

sign. 24 plates.

26

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s

20.

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''

29 Je.

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23.

"

25

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"

1s

"

22

Mr.

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The pagination

nd

plates

were

probably

as follows:

FASC. FOLIO TEXT. QUARTO TEXT.

PLATES.

19.

T.-p.,

pp.

1-56.

T.-p., pp.

I-64. 413-436.

20.

PP.

57-112. Pp. 65-128.

437-460.

2I.

PP-

113-176. Pp. 129-224.

46i-480.

22.

Pp.

177-236. Pp. 225-304. 48ia-b, 482, 483, 483a, 484-498.

23.

Pp.

237-338.

Pp.

305-332.

499a-b,S00-S.2.

The two unnumbered ages of the folioeditionfollowing age

338,

and

the

corresponding ages

of

the

quarto edition,mnay ave

appeared at a

later

date.

VOLUME VI

Six

fascicles constituted his

volume,

viz.

nos.

24-29. Of

these

the

B.

F.

gives

data for

quartofasc.24-26,

and all

thefolio

fascicles. There is

evidently

ome error

n

the

numberof plates

assigned

to fasc.

24,

unless

many

of

the earlier

plates were re-

issued at this time. This makes the numbers f the plates in

each

fascicle

of

this

volume

quite

doubtful:

Fasc.

24.

Folio,

28

sign.

Quarto,

0

sign. 37 plates.

I9

Ap. I823.

"

25.

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sign.

1S

"

4 S.

"

In

noting

he

folio,

he

title-page

eems

to

have

been

counted

as one

signature;

and the two unnumbered

pages forming igna-

ture io6, at the end of the volume,do not seem to have been

included,

nd

may

have

appeared

with later

fascicle. From the

description

n

Ferussac's Bulletin

cited by

Sherborn

and Wood-


13/15

596

BARNHART:

DATES

OF THE

NOVA

GENERA

OF

ward) we

can

fix

the

pagination f

quarto

fasc.

28, and

indirectly

-that

f

the

preceding

nd

following

ascicles.

The

following

s a

record

ofthis

volume

as I

understandt:

Fasc. 24.

Folio,

T.-p., Pp.

i-io8.

Quarto,

T.-p.,

Pp. 1-72.

PI.

513-522?

25.

"

Pp.

109-176.

"

Pp.

73-I68.

Pi.

523-537

?

26.

"

Pp.

177-236.

"

Pp.

I69-240.

PI.

538-552

?

27.

"

Pp.

237-300.

"

Pp.

24I-320.

PI.

553-569?

28.

"i

PP-

301-360.

"

PP-

321-392.

P/.

570-585

?

29. "

PP-

361-420 (2?).

"

PP-

393-542.

P/.586-6oo

?

In thisvolume,for he first ime, heproportionateize of the

corresponding

olio

and

quarto

parts

s

widely

t

variance.

VOLUME

VII

The

final olume

was

published

n

fasc.

30-36.

As

the

B.

F.

says that

fasc.

30

(folio)

was

composed

of

I3

signatures,while t

quite

certainly

ontained

onlypp.

1-48,

the

other

signature

very

likely

consisted of the

"addenda et

corrigetnda

of

Volumes

V

and

VI.

It

may

have

represented

he

title-pages

f

Volunme

II,

but as these are dated I825, theywereprobably ssuedwith he

last

part

fasc.

36).

Fasc.

36, too,

is

said to

have been

composed

of

29

signatures;

if

so,

some

I

8

ofvthese

ust

have

been

re-issues

of

earlier

portions

f

the

work. The

B.

F.

mentions

the

quarto

edition everal

times,

but fails

to

give

its

sheeting.

Its

record

of

the folio

s

this:

Fasc.

30.

13 signatures.

If

1ates.

13

N.

I824.

31.

i6

"

1S

i

25 D.

"

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36.

29

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3

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"

The

probable

pagination

s

given

herewith,

ut

it

must

be

con-

fessedthat

n the

case

of

the

quarto

this s

largely

guess

work.

FASC. FOLIO TEXT.

QUARTO TEXT.

PLATES.

30.

Pp.

1-48.

Pp.

1-56.

6oz-6zS.

N.

I824.

31.

PP.

49-112.

PP.

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6I6-630.

D.

i

32.

PP.

I13-176.

PP.

145-224.

63I-645.

F.

I825.

33. Pp. 177-236. Pp.

225-296.

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34.

Pp.

237-296.

Pp.

297-376.

66o-66i

bis,

662-673.

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35.

Pp.

297-356.

PP.

377-448.

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689-690.

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it

36.

PP.

357-399(+?).

PP-

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N.

it


14/15

HUMBOLDT,

BONPLAND AND KUNTH 597

RE_SuME

The followingresume is intended merely

s an aid to those

who may wish

to

determine uickly the probable

date of

publica-

tion of a

given page

or plate. Consequently ll details of title-

pages, repeatedplates,etc., are omitted.

Data which seem to me

certain

eyond

a reasonabledoubt are indicatedby an exclamation

point ( ), while a

mark of interrogation

?) accompanies those

which are

simplyguesses.

The unmarked

data are chiefly trong

probabilities.

FASC. VOL. FOLIO TEXT, PP. QUARTO TEXT, PP. PLATES.

DATE.

1-2

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15/15

598

BARNHART:

DATES

OF

THE NOVA

GENERA

There

is

littledoubt

that

the

first

wo

fascicles

were

dated

i 8I5,"

and that

fascicle IO

was dated

" i8i8 ";

and

it is

not

certain

that these

fascicles

were

not actually

issued

before

the

close

of thoseyears.

In

fact,

ll

of the dates

underwhich

notices

appeared

n the

"'

Bibliographie

e la France

" may

be

as much

as

six

or eight

weeks

later

thanthe

actual

publication

f thefascicles.

TARRYTOWN.

N. Y.

Documents

Dates of Nova Genera of Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth - 14 Pages 1920