Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University Index to the Moss Herbarium of Max Fleischer Fleischer was born in Upper Silesia, Germany, in 1861 and died in Menton, France, in 1930. (See obituary by P. de la Varde, Ann. Crypt. Exot. 3: 161-166, 1930, with portrait and bibliography.) He pursued the two careers of artist and bryologist throughout his life, his first visit to Java being on commission to prepare landscape paintings for the Paris Exposition of 1900. His major monograph was Die Musci der Flora von Buitenzorg, published in parts from 1900 to 1922. He issued sets of bryophyte specimens over a long period: Bryotheca europaea meridionalis, with Warnstorf, 1896-1910; Musci frondosi archipelagi indici (the last fascicle by Reimers), 1898-1933. He was always interested in classification, and his new arrangement of families and genera of mosses was adopted by Brotherus in the second edition (1924, 1925) of Engler and Prantl. Fleischer's moss herbarium of over 25,000 specimens was purchased by the Farlow Herbarium in 1930 from Weigel in Leipzig. It is of course rich in specimens from Malesia, where Fleischer spent the years 1898-1902 and 1908-1913 (see Flora Malesiana 1[1]: 167 for localities). On several world tours he collected also in Polynesia and other Pacific localities. He received Asiatic and South American specimens from, among others, Renault, Paris, Thériot, Herzog, Ule, Bescherelle, Husnot, and E. Levier. His own European specimens were augmented by those of Carl Müller, Geheeb, Milde, Bauer, and others.