Christian Heinrich Friedrich Hesse

His neighbour was the equally enthusiastic apothecary Peter Heinrich Poleman who provided a great deal of encouragement.

According to Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt he also sent natural history objects to the physiologist and anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in Göttingen.

Hesse returned to Germany, first to the parish of Nieuburg, then to Elbingrode (1822-1825), and lastly to Hoya, even so maintaining contact with the Lutherans of the Cape.

He finished German (1820) and Dutch (1823) versions of Latrobe's account of his visit to the Cape of 1815-1816, supplementing it with notes on the animals and plants referred to.

One of the appendices deals with the slates and granites around Cape Town, while briefly touching on some rocks and minerals found in the colony.