Scope and Contents This box contains a collection of notes, drawings and caricatures. Included are a six page sketchbook with notes and drawings of scenes from a botanical trip from Bremen to Bassum in 1806, a pen-and-ink drawing of the Mertens' home in Bremen by Mertens' son Carl Heinrich Mertens (1796–1830) and a large sheet with caricatures representing various "National Opinions on ---". (The missing name, which was torn out from the bottom of the page, is undoubtedly "Bonaparte"; it...