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Humboldts Grüne Erben · Humboldt’s Green Heirs<br />
Ludwig Diels. BGBM, Archiv.<br />
Unlike all his predecessors and successors, Diels had already had<br />
the opportunity to travel aro<strong>und</strong> the world as a young man: with<br />
a grant from the Humboldt Fo<strong>und</strong>ation for Natural Science and<br />
Travel, and only a few weeks after being awarded his habilitation<br />
in 1900, he embarked on a voyage that took him and his travelling<br />
companion Ernst Pritzel to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,<br />
New Brittany <strong>und</strong> New Guinea. The particular focus of this expedition<br />
was the very species-rich flora of south-western Australia,<br />
Ludwig Diels an Ernst Mayr, 26. 9. 1928. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer<br />
Kulturbesitz.<br />
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where the two travellers spent over a year and where they amassed<br />
rich collections. There they observed the unique vegetation, which<br />
is characterised by the Protea family, myrtles and legumes. Their<br />
observations, documented in numerous photographs, were written<br />
up by Diels in his survey Die Pflanzenwelt West-Australiens süd-