Bogor Botanical Gardens

When the Anglo-Dutch Treaty came into effect, the Netherlands sent officials to resume control of the colony in 1816. Among those on board are a German-born botanist named Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, who was appointed as head of agriculture, arts and science of the colony. A year later he proposed the establishment of a Botanical Garden, a move which was supported by Governor-General Van der Capellen. The Garden was officially founded on May 18, 1817 next to the palace ground through a collaboration with two botanists, William Kent from Holland and James Hooper from Kew.[5] The Garden was established as 's Lands Plantentuin ('National Botanical Garden').[6] He became its first director for five years, and gathered plants and seeds of economic potential from all over the archipelago for cultivation. Much of his taxonomic work was catalogued by his predecessor Carl Ludwig Blume in 1823, who recorded 914 plants in the Garden.[5][7]