Fig. 1. Portrait of Friedrich Schmitz (age unknown). Courtesy of Universitätsarchiv Greifswald (UAG), Fotosammlung.
Fig. 2. The purpose built slide cabinet housing the Schmitz collection at BM, with three trays extended.
Fig. 3. Micrograph of Sahlingia subintegra (Rosenvinge) Kornmann, comm. Berthold, 1879, as Erythrotrichia discigera Berthold, from Schmitz slide BM000650018. Photograph by Peter York.
Fig. 4. Two slides from the Schmitz collection.
Slide on left, number BM000651085 (bar-code label on back of slide); top label: 55o (Engler and Prantl enumeration as used at BM), 1094 (location in slide sequence), 3.94 (date of preparation- March 1894); red BM “Type”" label; bottom label: Iridaea orbitosa [Suhr] (now Aeodes orbitosa (Suhr) Schmitz), fr[uctification], C[ap] b[on] sp[ei] (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), coll. Ecklon, d[e]d[it] v[on] Suhr, Berliner Herb.
Slide on right, BM000653866 (bar-code label on back of slide); top label: 190L (Engler and Prantl enumeration as used at BM), 3805 (location in slide sequence), 5.91 (date of preparation- May 1891), Trichodonia; bottom label: Lophothalia lanuginosa J.Ag., fr., Australien (Australia), ex herb. Kew, Berliner Herb.