Abstract
In ‘An Archaeology of Mutis’s Disappearing Gift to Humboldt,’ José Antonio Amaya unearths the hidden traces of Jose Celestino Mutis’s generous but now mostly lost gift of an unprecedented collection of botanical drawings and specimens. This gift was privately entrusted to Humboldt and Bonpland and delivered, at least in part, to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Amaya provides a detailed reconstruction of the ways in which the work of the Crown-sponsored but locally run ‘Royal Botanical Expedition’ in Bogota was absorbed by Humboldt and Bonpland without always providing due recognition of the source.
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