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vast Departments of Loreto, San Martin and Huamuco, especially any plants related to Rauwolfia Duckei, Markgr. As I stated that similar work would need at least two years of hard exploring and collecting, a reasonable salary on basis of a contract,-- the very kind gentleman was rather interested and could -later on- contact me through Dr. Velarde. The medicinal plant herbarium was far from being good : most of the plants as Tabernae montana, Banisteria, Maytemus and locally known powerful disease curing ones as curare, murrie, sangugos, shillinto, macota, hugullucuy, etc. etc. - had in October -November neither f …

-10- Ing. Francisco Miranda Box 607 Rio Piedras, PUERTO RICO Sr. Jose Miron C. de Guatemala, GUATEMALA Mr. John E. Montel Agricultural Attache American Embassy C. de Guatemala, GUATEMALA Ing. Jose Montilla Servicio Agricola Shell, Cagua Serv. Shell para el agricultor Cagua, Edo., Aragua, VENEZUELA Dr. Leonrd R. Morris Dept. of Veg.Crops, W. of Calif. Davis, Calif., USA Mr. Ernest Mortensen Hort. Res. Advisor - S.A.C.A.A. American Embassy San Salvador, EL SALVADOR Mrs. Julia F. Morton Univ. of Miami P.O. Box 8204 Coral Gables 46, Fla., USA Ing. A. Moscoso Lancetilla Experiment Station Tela Railroad Co. Tela, HONDU …

-10- Ing. Francisco Miranda Box 607 Rio Piedras, PUERTO RICO Sr. Jose Miron C. de Guatemala, GUATEMALA Mr. John E. Montel Agricultural Attache American Embassy C. de Guatemala, GUATEMALA Ing. Jose Montilla Servicio Agricola Shell, Cagua Serv. Shell para el agricultor Cagua, Edo., Aragua, VENEZUELA Dr. Leonrd R. Morris Dept. of Veg.Crops, W. of Calif. Davis, Calif., USA Mr. Ernest Mortensen Hort. Res. Advisor - S.A.C.A.A. American Embassy San Salvador, EL SALVADOR Mrs. Julia F. Morton Univ. of Miami P.O. Box 8204 Coral Gables 46, Fla., USA Ing. A. Moscoso Lancetilla Experiment Station Tela Railroad Co. Tela, HONDU …

… D.N. Lillievaund W.R. Grace Co 2 Pier St., S.F. Cal. Dear Mr. Lillievaund: You well, I am sure, remember that the University of California has sent, under my direction, six botanical expeditions to western South America during the between 1935 and 1958. The scientific importance of the plant collections made by these expeditions has attracted world-wide attention. Many new plants or plant products of agricultural, horticultural, medicinal and industrial significance were discovered. By mapping plant distribution and recording climate and other pertinent data, formerly unknown potentialities of Peru, Chile and Arg …

… ustries Soc. Anon. Peruana Com. é Ind. contracted my services for visiting Moyobamba and reporting on the progress of the Locust Campaign. Thus, the obtained funds made it possible to purchase the complete collecting outfit, indispensable for resuming the old activity. Also Doctor Thomas Harper Goodspeed, professor of Botany & Director of the Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley, has honored me, conceding a contract for collecting herbarium material, living plants and seeds; I had also to write the description of each trip, and these descriptions had to be our exclusive property. Our first trip wa …

BOTANISTS FROM MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES COSTA RICA San Jose Liceo de Costa Rica. Museo Nacional (Director) San Pedro Montes de Oca Escuela Nacional de Agricultura (Director) Alfaro, Anastasio - Director, Museo Nacional, San Jose. (Orchidaceae) Breves, Alberto, Heredia. (Orchidaceae) Jimenez, Oton, Ph. G., San Jose. (Flora of Central America) Lankester, C. H., Cartago. (Orchidaceae) Valerio, Manuel, Professor of Botany, Liceo de Costa Rica, San Jose GUATEMALA Guatemala City Servicio Tecnico de Cooperation Agricola - 12 Calle Oriente No. 1 Pacheco, H. Mariano, Guatemala City. (Flora of Guatemala: Orchi …

… s Associate Professor of Forest Products Yale University School of Forestry New Haven 11, Connecticut. Dear Dr. Hess: Your very kind contribution of the Brazilian reprint describing the chain saw method of collecting plant specimens reached me via St. Louis shortly before our leaving the Canal Zone. It is very greatly appreciated, and I believe will be the basis for better collections in the future. Many thanks. I am here at Harvard working up the orchids for the Flora of Panama, and although it now seems relatively close to your establishment, there seems so much to do that I am beginning to wonder when I will b …

August 27, 1948 Mrs. H. T. Dobbins 2750 Marin Avenue Berkeley 8, California Dear Mrs. Dobbins: As I may have told you I have been honored by the Second South American Botanical Congress by being named the President of one of its Sections. The Congress is paying both Mrs. Goodspeed's and my transportation to Tucuman, Argentina, where the Congress is to be held October 10 to 17, and return. I wish to make the most of this opportunity to visit South America again and continue the search for new or little known plants of ornamental as well as scientific and economic importance, begun in 1935. Therefore, this Universi …

Joint Meeting of Systematic Section and The American Society of Plant Taxonomists Symposium: "The Phytogeography of South America" December 27 Notice of change of order of papers In the program of the Botanical Society of America, the papers making up this symposium were listed in erroneous order. Following is the order in which these papers will be given: Morning session, 9:30 a.m. 1. Cuatrecasas, J. Colombia 2. Steere, W.C. Ecuador 3. Hodge, W.H. Peru 4. Cutler, H. Bolivia Afternoon session, 2:00 p.m. 1. Smith, L.B. Argentina 2. Swallen, J.R. Brazil 3. Maguire, B. The Guianas 4. Steyermark, J.A. Venezuela 5. Sc …

wishes to find an institution (or group of institutions) in the United States which will support him and his family (wife and two children) and give him research facilities during the period necessary (two-three years?) to describe his material and complete his book on the phytogeography of Colombia and adjacent areas. Under such circumstances he will deposit his herbarium permanently in the United States. He hopes, of course, ultimately to be able to return to Spain.

… rveys (1963). Information will be collected on such basic topics as food preparation techniques, food habits, nutrient intake levels and sources of nutrients. Dietary information of this sort is scarce for South American Tropical societies and there are no studies which encompass the time span envisioned by the proposed research program. While we are under no false illusions as to the difficulty of collecting reliable nutritional data among primitive peoples, there can be no doubt that information on this topic will be of special importance to studies concerned with illuminating primitive man's adaptation to vari …

… spend 15 months of research time in Amazonian Peru living among the Aguaruna. There are two specific aims of the field research during this period. The first is to determine the full inventory of Aguaruna plant taxa and their botanical referents by extensive ethnoscientific elicitation and botanical collecting. Compilation of these basic data will form the foundation for the research leading to the discovery of those cognitive principles utilized by the Aguaruna in classifying, naming, and identifying these plant taxa. The final description of the native conceptualization of plants will contribute to the testing …

BOTANICAL GARDENS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, U.S.A. H. H. BARTLETT, DIRECTOR FRIEDA COBB BLANCHARD, ASSISTANT CURATOR (CACTI) HOWARD S. GENTRY, COLLABORATOR IN MEXICAN RESEARCH WALTER N. KOELZ, COLLABORATOR IN ASIATIC RESEARCH EILEEN M. KELLY, COLLABORATOR IN PHILIPPINE RESEARCH (ROSE) RUTH B. MCVAUGH, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, RADIATION GENETICS JOSE V. SANTOS, COLLABORATOR IN PHILIPPINE RESEARCH THEODORE P. BANK, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ALEUTIANS JANET FOWLER BANK, ASSISTANT THAIS RUP CHANG, COLLABORATOR IN ASIATIC RESEARCH YOUNG-PEE CHUNG, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ASIAN AND BOTANY IN-CHO CHUNG, RESEARCH ASSI …

MEMBERS OFN 2 SOUTH AMERICA, REGION III (Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina) Dr. Angel L. Cabrera Museo de La Plata LA PLATA - ARGENTINA Dr. Diego Legrand Museo de Historia Natural MONTEVIDEO - URUGUAY EUROPE Dr. Erik Asplund Department of Botany Natural History Museum STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN Dr. Joseph Lanjouw Botanical Museum and Herbarium State University of Utrecht UTRECHT - THE NETHERLANDS Dr. Alicia Lourteig Laboratoire de Phanerogamie Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 55 Rue Buffon PARIS 5e -FRANCE Dr. William Thomas Stearn The Herbarium British Museum - Natural History Cromwell Road LONDON, W. …

… Bernardo Giraldo, who was then a student at the Facultad Nacional de Agronomía, Medellín. He graduated in 1946. As part of the course of Botany, all students of the School of Agronomy collect at least 150 plant specimens for the school's herbarium. For further information regarding that herbarium I suggest that you write to Fred A. Barkley who is now working at the Facultad de Agronomía, Medellín. Ramón Espina and Juan Giacometto collected in the latter part of December, 1931, and in January and part of February, 1932, for the Yale School of Forestry, on the western and northwestern slopes of the Santa Marta Mou …

… wledge of Chile's agricultural resources. To continue such studies I must take with me from here an assistant botanist because it is not wise to explore alone in relatively uninhabited areas, especially in South America. In the past my botanical expeditions to the South have been financed in part with my own funds but largely with money donated by friends who believed in the importance of my work. I am now trying to obtain $4000 which, with what I have in hand, will make it possible to carry out my proposals for this fall. Is it possible that in France or perhaps elsewhere you know persons or societies who might …

… ccording to the fields in which it might be needed. A comprehensive index completes the work. As a result of the work done so far, I feel I have the necessary qualifications needed to complete the project. Collecting in Mexico has made me familiar with the plant life there. Living in Mexico for two years gave me many useful contacts among the scientists there, and prepared me for working in scientific institutions there. Through my library researches in the past five years, I know how to make use of the facilities they offer, have a rather broad knowledge of the literature in the field and now where important mat …

… enor Felix Woytkowski, has asked me to address you in response to your letter to him of some months ago concerning the possibility of his selecting orchids for you. For more than a year, Senor Woytkowski's plant-collecting has been financed by funds provided by friends of this Botanical Garden to carry on its fourth expedition to the Andes and adjacent regions. All botanical products of his collecting, which include dried plant specimens, living plants (especially orchids and cacti), and seeds of new or little-known species primarily of scientific importance, become the property of this University. We have receiv …

INSTITUTO INTERAMERICANO DE CIENCIAS AGRICOLAS DE LA OEA El Instituto es un organismo especializado de la Organización de los Estados Americanos. Fue esta- blecido por los Gobiernos de las Repúblicas Amé- ricanas en 1944 para promover su desarrollo econó- mico y social a través de la educación y la investiga- ción. ZONA ANDINA Teléfono 32090 Apartado 478 Lima, Perú Cable: AGROEA - Lima N° 100 June 8, 1964 Dr. David J. Rogers New York Botanical Garden Bronx Park, New York Dear Dave: By air parcel post I sent you a box containing seven vials with yuca flowers and buds. They belong to the following cultivars: Colora …

August 26, 1948 Mr. William B. Hubbard 231 Winston Street Los Angeles, California Dear Bill: Florence and I are off to South America, for the fifth time since 1935, on October 4. This journey to the South is unpremeditated and follows an invitation to me to become President of one of the Sections of the Second South American Botanical Congress which meets in Tucuman, Argentina, October 10 to 17. Since the Congress offered to pay Florence's and my round trip by air and maintenance during its session the invitation was difficult to refuse. Actually, the University has given me leave of absence until December so tha …