Pictures of three of the Schimper family, all of whom were productive collectors of herbarium specimens. They are included here to give an example of easily confused names and to remind us that there are people with complex lives behind every name and biography.

Figure 8a.

Karl Friedrich Schimper, by Conrad Geyer (1816-1893), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Figure 8b.

Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Schimper, public domain from the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg

Figure 8c.

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons