Humbolt's travels and discoveries in South America . Pulque Chol-i T2 CAPTIVITY OF BONPLAND. 277 The extensive collections which they had madeduring their perilous and fatiguing journeys, and thegeneral results of their expedition, have been of thehighest importance to policy, historical knowledge,and science. Natural history, botany, astronomy,and geography, have been aided and advanced withreference to the American part of the torrid zone. We are told that, when these philosophic travellershad returned from America, Bonpland was appointedby Buonaparte to the office of superintending
Humbolt's travels and discoveries in South America . Pulque Chol-i T2 CAPTIVITY OF BONPLAND. 277 The extensive collections which they had madeduring their perilous and fatiguing journeys, and thegeneral results of their expedition, have been of thehighest importance to policy, historical knowledge,and science. Natural history, botany, astronomy,and geography, have been aided and advanced withreference to the American part of the torrid zone. We are told that, when these philosophic travellershad returned from America, Bonpland was appointedby Buonaparte to the office of superintending thegardens of Malmaison, where the Empress Josephine,who was passionately fond of flowers, had formed asplendid collection of exotics. The amenity of hisdisposition, as well as his acquirements, procured forhim the esteem of all who knew him. In 1818 hewent to Buenos Ayres as Professor of Natural HistoryIn 1820 he undertook an expedition into the interiorof Paraguay; but, when he had arrived at St. Anne,on the eastern bank of the Parana, where he had es-tablished
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