Catalogue of Fungi

The grace which Your Serene Highness has seen fit to bestow upon me through the support of my academic life demands my most humble and faithful thanks. I had long since made it my duty to express this publicly, but I was hindered by circumstances beyond my control; and even now, as an opportunity presents itself, its value corresponds neither to the magnitude of the favor nor to my own intentions.

However, from the grace of Your Serene Highness, I may hope for a favorable reception of this modest work, since I have been rendered unable to produce anything better, partly by my own weakness and partly by the lack of resources.

Your Serene Highness has already erected monuments of the most active love for your lands as a lasting memorial, and among most sciences, the study of nature has also had to boast of Your Highness’s most excellent participation.

The labor of the tireless and unforgettable Walch Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725–1778), a German theologian and naturalist known for his work on fossils and mineralogy. was preserved through the foresight of Your Serene Highness, and combined with the riches already present in the Princely Cabinet into a great whole, at the sight of which many a friend of nature will bless the memory of its founder in times to come.

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