[93] There is a gigantic statue of Columbus, placed in a conspicuous place and looking down into the harbor. They make very much of him now, as well they may; they derided him when living, they set up his image long after he is dead. Of course we are very much obliged to him, for if he had not discovered America what would have become of us!--A. G. [94] Gaetano Savi, 1769-1844. [95] Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, 1785-1856; distinguished Florentine botanist. [96] Giovanni Battista Amici, 1784-1863; an Italian astronomer, especially skilled in the construction of optical instruments. [97] Horatio Greenough; the American sculptor in Florence. [98] Roberto de Visiani, 1809-1878; professor of botany at Padua; author of a _Flora Dalmatica_. [99] B. Biasoletto, M. D., 1793-1858. Triest. “A botanist of merit and investigator of Algæ of the Adriatic” [A. G.]. [100] M. J. Tommasini, 1794-1879. Triest. Author of a Botany of Mt. Slavonik, Istria. [101] Stephen Ladislaus Endlicher, 1804-1849; professor of botany in the University of Vienna; author of _Genera Plantarum_. [102] Aloys Putterlich, 1810-1845; keeper of the Botanical Museum, Vienna. [103] Edward Fenzl, 1807-1879; professor of botany and director of the Botanic Garden at Vienna. [104] Dr. Heinrich Schott, 1794-1865; director of the Imperial Gardens, Schönbrunn. “He was the highest authority on Aroideæ” [A. G.]. [105] A. C. J. Corda, 1809-1849. Prague. A distinguished mycologist. Lost at sea on returning from America. [106] Karel B. Presl, 1794-1852; professor at Prague and curator of the herbarium. [107] Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck, 1776-1858; professor of natural history at Bonn and Breslau. [108] Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, 1797-1848; professor of botany at Munich. Among other publications he assisted in describing the plants collected and described by Siebold in the _Flora Japonica_. [109] Julius Hermann Schultes, 1804. Died in Munich, 1840. [110] Jean Etienne Duby, 1797-1885; long one of the Genevese clergy and a botanist and colleague of Augustin Pyramus do Candolle. [111] Dr. Gurdon Buck. [112] Hugo von Mohl, 1805-1872. Born at Stuttgart. Professor of botany at Tübingen. “Chief of the vegetable anatomists of this generation” [A. G.]. [113] Eduard Friedrich Pöppig, 1798-1868; professor of zoölogy at Leipsic. Made collections of plants in Cuba, Chili, Peru, and on the upper Amazon. [114] Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen, 1775-1853; professor of natural history at Leipsic. [115] Heinrich Gottlieb Reichenbach, 1793-1879; professor of botany at Dresden. A voluminous author, especially of illustrated works on European plants. [116] D. F. L. von Schlechtendal, 1784-1866. University of Halle. Editor of the _Linnæa_ and _Botanische Zeitung_. [117] Christian Schkuhr, 1741-1811. _History of Carices_, 1802. [118] Dr. J. H. Klotzsch, 1805-1860; keeper of the Royal Herbarium at Berlin.