Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 67. (Budapest 1975)
Szujkó-Lacza, J.: What happened with Schott's herbarium
In the last century (during Austro —Hungarian monarchy) exchanges according to custom took place between SCHOTT and HAZSLINSZKY or SCHOTT and HAYNALD. The Museum brought HAZSLINSZKY'S herbarium in 1896 (cf. FILARSZKY 1902). HAYNALD'S collection originated from the Haynald legacy (cf. SZUJKÓ-LACZA 1973). This latter herbarium, when inherited by Museum from HAYNALD, included among others e.g. the KOTSCHY and SODIRO collections. According to RIEDL (I.e.), ,,He (SCHOTT) described new Turkish plants sent to him by his friend TH. KOTSCHY". - Furthermore, the two friends were in connection with each another by the change of plants too. HAYNALD bought KOTSCHY'S herbarium, together with seeds and fruits of Qercus, the original drawings and paintings of Quercus (on which material the famous monograph of Quercus by KOTSCHY was based), and after HAYNALD'S death this big collection became a part of the Museum's herbarium. To sum up, inferences indicate that SCHOTT'S ,,official" collection namely one kept at Schönbrunn remained at least partly, in the Imperial Gardens, whole his own, personal herbarium, papers and books was bought by HAYNALD. And this was the way that the Budapest Museum became also SCHOTT'S Araceae. Among the herbarium specimens this appear, though rarely, sheets carrying the initials ,,HS" in the right lower corner of the label. The majority of Araceae sheets display (a) plant part(s) (b) plants and drawing(s) and (c) only drawings. (The drawings are in every case reprints and not originals. The originals are in Vienna.) Some examples: (a) Anthurium Scherzerianum SCHOTT flor. in Hort. bot. Vienn. 14/4. 1875 (there are only plant parts on the sheet) (b) A. ENGLER: Araceae No. 187 Tothor Anthurium ochranthum C. KOCH in. . . . Syn. A. lapat hi folium, SCHOTT in Öest. bot. Woch.en.bl. 1857/p. 309. Trotzd. 533. Patria : Costa rica Speeimina sicca ex horto bot. universitatis Kiel, anno 1883/84. (there are plant parts and drawing on the sheet) (c) A. ENGLER: Araceae No. 143. Pothoideae Anthurium pall ens SCHOTT in Öest. bot. Zeitschr. 1858 p. 180. Prodr. 443., Engl, in D. E. Puites an Prodr. II. 111. ^ Costa rica, ad Desengano alt 2600 m (Wendland) Ex iconibus SOHOTTÜ in herbariö Caesareo Vindobonensi Conservatis reproducta (there are only drawings on the sheet) As RIEDL (I.e.) wrote ,,The models for these plants were either living plants or herbarium specimens or in some instances specimen preserved in ethanol." Since, therefore, SCHOTT'S Schönbrunn herbarium was destroyed, it is most fortunate that his private collection of plants, or drawings, or both, were saved in our Herbarium. Some of these represent types. If they will be designated as such by taxonomist, SCHOTT'S type-material will not be lost for science. In addition it should be mentioned that our Araceae collection contains many specimens gathered also by other famous collectors e. g. L. H. BAILEY, C. BALNITZ, BUCHE, DÖRFLER, EGELIUS, J. H. EHLERS, A. D. E. ELMER, J. HANÁK, S. JÁVORKA, Á. KISS, C. KOCH, H. LINDBERG, G. MOESZ, PAULIN, A. PURPUS, REICHENBACH, E. RUDOMINOWNA, J. SADLER, J. SCHEFFER, J. SCHIRAJEWSKY, L. SODIRO, M. STAUB, E. TOPA, K. J. WALLE, L. WAGNER, S. H. WRIGHT, H. ZOLLINGER, and others. References ENGLER, A. (1920): Araceae in Das Pflanzenreich Regni vegetabilis conspectus. IV. 23A pp. 71. FILARSZKY, N. (1902): A Növénytani Osztály története és jelen állapota. The history and present state of the Botanical Department. — (In: A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum múltja és jelene alapításának századik évfordulója alkalmából — The past and present of the Hungarian National Museum of the occasion of its one hundredth anniversary.) Budapest, 261—276.
