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 Real Rauh-Numbers and
Pseudo-Rauh-Numbers
Rauh used one single numbering scheme for two purposes:
First to number his gatherings made in the wild by himself (here referred to as «real Rauh-numbers») and
second to register acquisitions received from a third party (here referred to as «pseudo Rauh-numbers»).
There is no sign or method to distinguish the two purposes by number. When back from an expedition,
Rauh continued numbering acquisitions sent to the Botanical Garden Heidelberg with the next number
following the last number used in the wild for his own gatherings.
In some cases that in his absence the same interval was used for received plants that he simulaneously used for his own gtherings in the wild.
At a new expedition he usually started
numbering with a number rounded to thousands. So there are not only numbers used twice but a lot of gaps as well in the number-interval used by Werner Rauh. |
