Note 2 — Chapter I · The Botanists of Germany and the Netherlands from Brunfels to Kaspar Bauhin[2].

Kurt Sprengel in his ‘Geschichte der Botanik,’ i. 1817, and Ernst Meyer in his ‘Geschichte der Botanik,’ iv. 1857 have described the connection between the first beginnings of modern botany and the general state of learning in the 15th and 16th centuries; a particularly interesting notice of Valerius Cordus from the pen of Thilo Irmisch will be found in the ‘Prüfungsprogramm’ of the Schwarzburg gymnasium of Sondershausen for 1862. Here, as throughout, the present work will be confined to the investigation and description of the development of strictly botanical ideas.