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… ty of California Berkeley, California January 6, 1955 Mr. Nelson A. Rockefeller Dept. of State Washington D.C. Dear Mr. Rockefeller: You may remember that in 1942-43 I lectured and gave technical advice in South America under the auspices of your Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations and that we met on several occasions in San Francisco during the first meeting of the United Nations. Since, I have been three times in South America at the invitation of the governments of Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. As shown in the enclosed statement my background of experience in those and other …
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… tion to the problem of obtaining determinations for collections of herbarium material now being made by our Fourth Andean expedition in Colombia and Peru. When I was in Colombia this summer I organized the collecting which is going on in more or less botanically unknown territory southeast of Medellin. Guitierrez is responsible for that area. Out of Cali Cuatrecasas has been getting additional material. The Peruvian collecting under Felix Woytkowski's direction has been under way for a year. We have already received 350 of his numbers and an equivalent aggregation is on the way. Botah shipments represent collecti …
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, SOILS, AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING DIVISION OF PLANT EXPLORATION AND INTRODUCTION PLANT INDUSTRY STATION BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND October 24, 1952 Prof. David J. Rogers Department of Biology and Geology Allegheny College Meadville, Pennsylvania Dear Professor Rogers: I have your letter of October 20 suggesting that we might be interested in supporting your investigations and the collection of Manihot esculenta in South America. This is a worthwhile study but one for which at the present time it would be impossible …
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… ER ARTHUR M. ANDERSON Dr. Mildred H. Mathias, 1156 Keeler Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. Dear Dr. Mathias: Recently I have been assigned the terrific task of identifying and reporting on the large extra-tropical South American herbarium assembled by Mr. Krukoff, consisting chiefly of collections of Cabrera, Farodi, Schulz, Job, Carette, Venturi, Schlechter, Castellanos, Descole, Werdermann, etc. It is my plan to enlist the cooperation of specialists in various groups and ask them to contribute the determinations and notes on their particular groups. A series of annual reports will then be issued by me, arranged in fami …
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… he Chilean government is asking me to come to Valparaiso this fall to start the development of the National Botanical Garden which I designed in 1942-43. If I accept this invitation & shall take with me to South America one or two collectors. I wish to have one of them make further phytogeographic investigations of the cactus vegetation of Peru. In preparation for this work a detailed study of the areas from which herbarium material has been obtained is necessary. Can you tell me how I can buy the sheets of the Carta Nacional, Servicio Geografico del Ejercito? Of this map I have only hoja 7a, Dept. de la Lebertad …
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, SOILS AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING Agricultural Research Service DIVISION OF PLANT EXPLORATION AND INTRODUCTION PLANT INDUSTRY STATION BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND March 24, 1954 Mrs. Ida K. Langman 2316 Delancey Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Mrs. Langman: I enjoyed the account of your botanizing in Mexico in the latest issue of the Asa Gray Bulletin, and your reference to a possible new genus in the Leguminosae suggested that the plant you had in mind may have been the one that came to me for identification yea …
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6 Carnegie Institution of Washington Public, No. 173, parts 1 & 2. Washington. Pp. xvii, 342, 21, plus 102 pls.; xvii, 343-900, 18. Ross, Hubert Barnes 1954. The diffusion of the manioc plant from South America to Africa. MS. PhD dissertation, Anthropology, Columbia Univ. *Roumain, Jacques 1942. Contribution à l'étude de l'Ethnobotanique précolombienne des Grandes Antilles. Bulletin du Bureau d'Ethnologie de la République d'Haiti, No. 1. Port-au-Prince. Seake, Wilhelm 1950. Der Maniok im Wirtschaftsleben der Urwaldstämme Südamerikas. Eribourg? *Sauer, Carl O. 1950. Cultivated plants of South and Central America. …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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… e countries. Four locations were selected for nurseries: two in Peru, one in Colombia, and one in Ecuador. These nurseries will become part of a chain extending throughout the tropical areas of Central and South America. All countries participating in the program will share the superior disease-resistant strains already developed. Three other parties are still in Latin America. One is in Panama, one in Brazil, and the other in Mexico. Another party is in the Philippine Islands, collecting seed and budwood. To date nurseries have been arranged for or planted in more than a dozen localities in Central and South Ame …
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TEXAS RESEARCH FOUNDATION RENNER, TEXAS August 13, 1958 Mr. Paul Allen Escuela Agricola Panamericana Tegucigalpa, Honduras Dear Paul: We are trying to build up a greater research center for the Southwest and adjacent Latin America. We, of course, need all the library and herbarium facilities that we can obtain. We are especially interested in building up our plant collections not only from the U.S. Southwest but also especially from Mexico and Central America. I am wondering if you have duplicate specimens available which we might be able to obtain? If so, we should certainly like to make some arrangements satisf …
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Appendix Concerning Plant Collecting by Members of the Armed Forces This note is prepared to accompany letters written in answer to inquiries concerning plant collecting for the U.S. National Herbarium. Why collect: Many people think that the plants of the region in which they are stationed are already thoroughly known and it would be useless to gather more material. This idea is erroneous because: (1) Collecting these plants may be a valuable occupation for increasing your knowledge of the plant life about you through having the specimens identified for you. (2) No part of the world is entirely known botanically …
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March 17, 1948 AIR MAIL Mr. Rodney Wilcox Jones, President American Orchid Society 100 Broadview Avenue New Rochelle, New York Dear Mr. Jones: Your kind letter of last summer was not acknowledged earlier because from it I had the impression that we were to have the pleasure of seeing you here before this. Many thanks for your willingness to make some addition to our orchid collection from yours. Our collection has been badly housed, and I have repeatedly asked the University authorities for funds to build an additional, more modern greenhouse. Apparently, we are to have one but construction costs are increasing s …
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… ction of the handsome Tabebuias; in the Fortin area-Hubergia alata, Eugenia jambos, Russelia coccinea, Clerodendron fragrans, Bombax ellipticum, Near Oaxaca Here the dry season was in full force-only a few plants in flower-Plumeria, Tournefortia densiflora, Cordia curassavica, Maurandya scandens. But on Cerro de San Felipe, up to 10,000 feet, there was forest-water, even a waterfall, and a Cays collecting turned up Brongniartia intermedia, Arctostaphylos polifolia, Clinopodium macrostemonAnisocanths conzatti Cuernavaca Marx just before the rains-Stemmadenia mallis, Albizzia occidentalis, Bouvardie chrysantna, Zep …
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… rrived a few days ago and very welcome it was. A day or two ago the pamphlet on decorations on wooden utensils also was received. I am exceedingly interested in these paintings which show a large number of plants. What a fertile field of research the ethnobotany of Peru would be! Your problems at the chacra sound so characteristic of Peru and South America in general. The sexual instincts of the Latins are so highly developed that the law should recognize the situation and establish an institution in which the children produced would be brought up without penalty so far as the parents are concerned! In this count …