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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY BERKELEY · DAVIS · IRVINE · LOS ANGELES · RIVERSIDE · SAN DIEGO · SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA · SANTA CRUZ LANGUAGE-BEHAVIOR RESEARCH LABORATORY 2224 PIEDMONT AVENUE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 December 8, 1971 Professor David Rogers Food Research Institute Stanford University Stanford, California Dear Professor Rogers: Over the last several years, I have been engaged in studying the folk botany of a group of Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico. We corresponded briefly about this work in the mid-60s and I think you are acquainted with my botanical collaborators on the projects, Drs. …

… proposals for agricultural development in St. Croix, which we discussed at Bohemian Grove, were of some special interest to me. For many years I have been concerned with the search for new or little known plants of potential economic, as well as scientific, interest in subtropic South America. The four plant-hunting expeditions I have directed down there have brought back the most comprehensive accumulation of botanical information ever obtained in the areas we covered. Early in October I will be in South America again and hope to be able to organize another expedition which will cover regions not yet explored. …

… nia March 9, 1956 Mr. Marshall P. Madison 225 Bush Street San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Madison: At the suggestion of Paul C. Hutchison, Sr. Botanist in this Botanical Garden, I am outlining below the South American project in the support of which you expressed interest in a recent conversation with him. I have been invited by the Chilean Government to spend some months in Chile to contribute toward realizing the agricultural potential of that republic by lectures and technical advice. My acceptance will largely depend upon the pos- sibility of financing the continuation of my studies of the composition and …

… . July 28, 1919. Mr. T. G. Yuncker, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. My dear Mr. Yuncker: Your letter of July 23 is at hand. I am very glad to learn that you are to take up a critical study of the South American dodders. In this connection, could I get you to identify at once the species which I collected in Ecuador this past summer? The material is not in very good shape, I fear, for I find it very difficult to make good specimens in this genus. You have, no doubt, developed some special technique in handling plants of this kind and I would suggest that you send to your correspondents a memorandum stati …

… ongwood Gardens Wilmington, Delaware Dear Dr. Seibert: Under separate cover I am sending you a reprint descriptive of the routes and products of the five expeditions I directed for this Botanical Garden in South America. The accompanying observations on the phytogeography of Peru may be of some special interest to you. I am planning a sixth South American expedition for 1957-58 and hope to spend six to eight months (Sept.-Oct. to Feb.-March) principally in Peru and Chile. While my principal objective will be obtaining evidence in areas critical, on the basis of past experience, for solution of major problems of A …

… the classification. We would therefore like to have a herbarium specimen from you for each of your cultivars made according to the enclosed recommended procedures, including the listed field data. I hope that we can collaborate in this endeavor. If you find these suggestions meaningful and interesting, let me know. I hope that you will have some information about the projected trip into Paraguay and southern Brazil soon. I believe that the Rockefeller Foundation is interested sufficiently to aid in supporting such a collecting expedition. I would be glad to contact them in your behalf (and mine). Sincerely, David

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY June 4, 1974 Dear Dr. Popencoe: I have a fine 14 X 20 inch photograph of "Wilson Popencoe, Plant Explorer". This must have been taken no fewer than 60 years ago but I have no idea where except that the tree used for a background looks like it might be aguacaste. You are mounted on a white horse and have a black pack mule loaded with two "box" panniers with stuff piled on top. If you or any of your youngsters might like to have it I shall be glad to ship it to wherever you may indicate. Quite a log time ago a note went to you sounding you out on YOU preparing an article on the horti …

research tool. He came to me, offering to give me every facility if I could return to work on the Chilean flora. The project was a botanist's dream, but unhappily I was not in a position to take advantage of it. Trusting that you will let me know a little more definitely what is charged against me, I am, with best regards, Yours sincerely Ivan M. Johnston, Associate Director Supervisor of the Herbarium and Library

Project -- Evaluation and clarification of phytogeographic problems in temperate South America, 1957-59, T.H.Goodspeed The following specific research projects are derived from long contact with the floras of temperate South America, their character and distribution (cf. p. 1). The particular areas involved in each case appear to be critical, in terms of geologic history, for evaluation of postulates concerning trans- and inter-Andean plant distribution and the origin and evolution of the vegetation they now exhibit. I. Factors influencing trans- and inter-Andean plant distribution Peru (1) In 1942-43 some collec …

my South American botanical investigations? As in the past we will collect new or little known plants of ornamental as well as scientific importance to enrich the gardens of temperate climates elsewhere in the world. I know that dollars are hard to obtain outside this country but I am told that it might be possible for nationals of other countries to buy Chilean pesos which I could then use in Chile. Any suggestions you might have would be very much appreciated. I certainly hope that you and Helen will be in California next spring. It would give me great happiness to see you both. Again many thanks for your lette …

… h with Dr. Ramon Ferreyra who is one of the botanists at San Marcos and the Est. Exp. Agricola, La Molina, Lima. The latter is the better address. He is U.S. trained and should be interested in naming your plants for you and in adding the specimens you collect to the La Molina herbarium. He may have a plant press & blotters to loan you - I think that my assistant who has just left Calleco after a month's collecting in Depto. Lima turned over collecting equipment to Ferreyra. Don't hesitate to you my name but don't expect too much because F., despite ten years in USA, is tipico! If you should be in Calleco look up …

Report to Mr. Sidney M. Ehrman on 1951-52 South American botanical exploration -- T.H.Goodspeed I. Areas studied -- The black line on the enclosed map shows the route of the expedition in Chile and Peru. Some 5000 miles were traversed by car and 1000 by other transportation and on foot. As shown, the coast of Chile was explored from the arid and torrid north, through the central ("Mediterranean") portion and into the forested, humid southern region. This was the first complete botanical exploration ever made of this 900 mile coastal strip, which is unique botanically primarily because of the variety of climates i …

has been carrying on plant exploration in critical and and botanically unknown areas in Peru and Colombia in order that the unique body of evidence already obtained by the first three expeditions shall become more complete. When these final results are secured this University will possess the most significant accumulation of material bearing upon the character and distribution of the floras of the Andes and adjacent regions ever brought together. For the work I plan to do in South America this fall I will need local assistance because I am no longer able to undergo the strain of continued collecting at high altit …

FELIX WOYTKOWSKI ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS PERU - SOUTH AMERICA Of course, I would have sent you the entire collection; were it not for obstacles, that at the time seemed unsurmountable, viz., most plants were dying at Plant Quarantine fumigation, - "new exchange regulations," "export difficulties" and absurdly expensive plane-freight. Now, after three years, I state it - and please, you must believe me. I did not gain anything by selling the plants at Lima. I had to work for the whole next year at the British Embassy - taking care of said plants; the first few months I received a salary of 50 dollars and later o …

the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. Most of the material was collected by the senior author either from a plot maintained by an experiment station, or from a farmer's field. Because much previous survey and collecting work have been done at several of the experiment stations, an excellent cross section of the types of variation to be The specimens used in this study are to be deposited in the herbarium of the United States National Arboretum, Washington, D.C. 20002.

… y little known or previously unknown taxa and much new distribution evidence was obtained. From this combined evidence accumulated over the past 20 years certain postulates, based upon the geologic history of the Andes, concerning fundamental phytogeographical problems in temperate South America have been derived. A number of areas botanically little known have been shown by preliminary study to be critical for evaluation of these postulates. The accumulation of much additional evidence via further field work in these key areas and correlated studies in South American herbaria is essential (cf. attached project).

January 24, 1949 Professor Adolph Hecht Department of Botany State College of Washington Pullman, Washington Dear Professor Hecht: Your letter of December 6 was awaiting my recent return from South America. For a number of years I have had a local collector working with me in Peru. If you will be good enough to give me the exact locations of collections made of Oenothera featherstonii in Peru, I will be glad to transmit the information to him in case it appears at all possible that he will be collecting in the areas involved. In addition, I would suggest that you send similar information to Dr. Ferreyra who has t …

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY WASHINGTON DIVISION OF PLANT EXPLORATION AND INTRODUCTION July 30, 1941. Dr. Wilson Popenoe, Care Magdalena Fruit Company, Santa Marta, Colombia. Dear Wilson: We should like very much to obtain seeds of Nephelium lappaceum and Durio zibethinus for two of our correspondents in Brazil - Dr. F. de Assis Iglesias, Diretor, Servico Florestal, Ministerio da Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro, and Sr. Pimentel Gomes, Diretor de Departamento de Assistancia ao Cooperativismo, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brasil. If these plants are fruiting at Tela, I am wondering if you …

… r. Krug: My apologies for my laxity in answering your letter of November 25 concerning my research project on the varieties of Manihot Utilissima. I have been in contact with many scientists in Central and South America in order to establish the procedures which will give us the best results. In as much as my duties as a professor limit my free time for experimental work with Manioca, it is imperative that I establish a base of operation much closer to this country than is Brazil. With this in mind, I have asked the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, and the Di …

… March 9, 1956 Mr. Marshall P. Madison 225 Bush Street San Francisco li, California Dear Mr. Madison: At the suggestion of Paul C. Hutchison, Sr. Botanist in this Botanical Garden, I am outlining below the South American project in the support of which you expressed interest in a recent conversation with him. I have been invited by the Chilean Government to spend some months in Chile to contribute toward realizing the agricultural potential of that republic by lectures and technical advice. My acceptance will largely depend upon the pos- sibility of financing the continuation of my studies of the composition and …