Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 67. (Budapest 1975)
Szujkó-Lacza, J.: What happened with Schott's herbarium
ANNALES HISTORICO -NA TUR ALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 67. Budapest 1975. What Happened with Schott's Herbarium by JÚLIA SZUJKÓ-LACZA, Budapest Abstract — According to FILARSZKY (1902) and the herbarium sheets from Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, author demonstrated, that the personal herbarium of SCHOTT was bought by HÁYNALD. After HAYNALD'S death their big collection became part of the Museum's herbarium. And this was the way that the Budapest Museum became also SCHOTT'S Araceae. HEINRICH WILHELM SCHOTT was born 180 years ago, on 7 January, 1794 in Brno, Moravia, and died in 1865. The 110th anniversary of his death can be commemorated in 1975. SCHOTT was a well known taxonomist of Araceae. Like his father he worked in Vienna as a gardener in the Schönbrunn Gardens. The most important event of his life was an expedition to Brazil in 1817, where he could study many species of Araceae in their original habitat. According to ENGLER (1920), the family Araceae has 8 subfamilies, many tribes, subtribes and genera rich in species of these, numerous taxa have been described by SCHOTT (see in ENGLER I.e., RIEDL 1965, 1966, NICOLSON 1967). The area of Araceae expands from the tropical regions to lands of temperate climate. The species are perennials and according to life-form, dendroid to herbaceous. The common characters of Araceae are the mucilage, in different parts of the plants the crystal idioblast whithin raphides and other Ca-oxalate crystals. (The formation of crystal and raphide primordia was shown in the aerial root of Monstera deliciosa LIEBM. by RAKOVÁN, KOVÁCS & SZUJKÓ-LACZA 1973). During his travels, SCHOTT collected many tropical and subtropical species of this family, as a flori-culturist, he cultivated them in the green-houses of Schönbrunn. At the same place, he continued to augment the herbarium especially with Araceae, partly from plants which he collected in Brazil and planted in the green-houses, partly by exchange. As stated by RIEDL (Le.) „SCHOTT'S herbarium specimens of Araceae and some other groups, especially Monocotyledonae, were destroyed by war action in 1945. Some years ago, STAFLEU (1967) mentioned briefly SCHOTT'S Araceae preserved in Budapest. Since then several botanist, showed interst in SCHOTT'S Araceae species. I received letters enquiring whether SCHOTT'S herbarium is infact deposited in Budapest. Some words should therefore be said about our Araceae specimens. In the Herbarium Generale of the Botanical Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum there are a number of specimens actually oroginating, directly or indirectly, from SCHOTT'S herbarium. Not only for the family Araceae, but also for other ones, there are sheets labelled „Ex herbario SCHOTT' bearing on the same label or beside it the stamp ,,Herbarium Archiepiscopi D ris Ludovici Haynald". Another source of SCHOTT'S specimens — but in rare cases —• is HAZSLINSZKY'S herbarium. Ann. Hist.-nat. Mus. Nat. Hung., 67, 1975
