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Sammeln 1910 – 2010 · Collecting 1910 – 2010<br />
schungsschwerpunkten wurde in diesen Jahren weltweit<br />
<strong>und</strong> enzyklopädisch erworben. HWL<br />
‘Limitless’ Growth<br />
Botanical collections were – and are – acquired by four different<br />
routes: exchange, purchase, gifts, and the activity of collecting itself.<br />
This applies as much to preserved plants, journals and books<br />
Naßpräparat der Muskatnuss Myristica fragrans, gesammelt von Otto<br />
Warburg auf den Molukken. O. Warburg war Privatdozent für Tropische<br />
Pflanzenk<strong>und</strong>e an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin <strong>und</strong> in<br />
verschiedenen kolonialpolitischen Gremien aktiv. Die Pflanzenausbeute<br />
seiner Ostasienreise 1885–89 übereignete er 1893 dem Botanischen <strong>Museum</strong>.<br />
BGBM, Herbar.<br />
89<br />
Wardsche Kiste zum Transport lebender Pflanzen per Schiff. Diese Form<br />
des Pflanzentransportes wurde noch bis ins frühe 20. Jahrh<strong>und</strong>ert am<br />
BGBM praktiziert. BGBM, <strong>Museum</strong>.<br />
as to living plants and seeds. Nowadays the latter are only acquired<br />
through exchange and active collecting.<br />
In quantitative terms, the categories of exchange and gifts have<br />
only <strong>und</strong>ergone minor variations in the last h<strong>und</strong>red years. The<br />
same cannot be said for purchases and the activity of collecting,<br />
which were and are dependent on the available budget, so that<br />
high fluctuations naturally occur over the decades. As a large institution<br />
in the German capital everything was and is acquired<br />
as a basic principle – with the application of quality control, of<br />
course, but without geographic and thematic restriction. At the<br />
same time the activity of collecting has been influenced both by<br />
‘claims’ staked by other institutions worldwide and by prevailing<br />
political conditions.<br />
Up to the First World War a focus of acquisitions was on material<br />
from the German colonies. The Botanische Zentralstelle für<br />
die deutschen Kolonien, heavily promoted by Adolf Engler and<br />
financed between 1891 and 1919 by the Foreign Office of the German<br />
Reich situated on the gro<strong>und</strong>s of the BGBM, played an important<br />
role of mediator in this, especially when it came to tropical<br />
economic plants. Regardless of individual research foci, acquisitions<br />
in these years were made on a worldwide and encyclopaedic<br />
basis. HWL