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… ntrating their attention on our country in such a way that it has no precedents in the past. It all predicts that, within a short time, the vegetation of the Peruvian Andes will be one of the best known of South America. With the brevity that a newspaper article demands, I am going to review rapidly the works effected from the close of the year 1906 up to the present time and the principal publications that have reached the public. In 1906 Dr. Serafin Filomeno, Director of the College of "San Jose" of Moyobamba, obtains an appreciable collection of Orchideae in the reported province (B D) that contained 23 new sp …

T. H. Goodspeed, Ph.D., Doctor (hon.c.), Sc.D. (hon.c.) Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden University of California, Berkeley South American experience and contacts 1935-36; 1938-39; 1942-43; 1946; 1948; 1952 In South America six times for periods of 3 to 15 months to survey the character and distribution of the vegetation, principally of Peru, Chile, Argentina and Colombia but also of Bolivia and Uruguay, and to cooperate in educational and other programs. Peru, Chile, Argentina, Colombia Directed botanical exploration of little known areas leading to discovery of new species of potential a …

… have. Some of our botanists working on floras in Colombia S.A. are interested in communicating with someone, or finding literature of someone who has done paleobotanical work in Colombia, Venezuela, or in South America generally. This could be some scientist in S.A. or someone in the U.S. who is familiar with fossils of S.A. In my own studies I have had no occasion to use any South American material. My own work at the Garden is progressing favorably, if slowly. I am in the midst of identifying another Ruby site with about 40 species. Hope the first section will appear in print soon. Editors mills grind proverbi …

… ocleciana, Museo Nacional, Managua. PANAMA Balboa Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory, Gatun Lake, Drawer Z. (Curator) Tropical Station of the Missouri Botanical Garden, (Manager) Summit Canal Zone Plant Introduction Gardens, - (Agronomist) Bouche, A. M., Jr. - Amateur Collector and Distributor of Orchids, Box 179, Pedro Miguel, (Orchids of Panama and Central America). Higgins, J. E., M.S. - Agronomist, Director, Canal Zone Experiment Gardens Summit. (Ecology of Economic and Ornamental Tropical Plants) Hunter, A. A., Collector, Manager of the Tropical Station of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Balboa. (Col …

… ento 14, California. Dear Mr. Goethe, Thank you for your letter of June 23rd, and the copy of Geogardening received a few days ago. As you perhaps know I have spent a total of over four years since 1935 in plant exploration in South America, principally on the West Coast. Therefore I was particularly interested in the chapters in Geogardening dealing with South American species and the quite remarkable photographs which they contain. These photographs bring back vividly to my remembrance our months in the Peruvian highlands and the wonderful lake region of southern Chile. I am enclosing two reprints of rather pop …

general, and in particular he has rather intimate contacts with the Herbarium here, which is a matter of some importance, and he knows more about the South American collections as a whole than anyone else who was connected with the expedition. I will, of course, visa his initial correspondence with you, and you will, of course, feel perfectly free to write me rather than Morrison in any connection, if you so desire. Since the beginning of the fall semester some weeks ago we have had to concentrate on the distribution work, but it is progressing rapidly. Morrison will outline to you what is available to go forward …

3:30 12. Ornamental Plant Utilization in Basic Research James A. McArthur, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 3:50 13. History and Use of Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) Erika E. Gaertner, Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 4:10 Visit to the Morton Collectanea, of the University of Miami, an information center in Economic Botany. 6:00 Cocktail hour, Holiday Inn, Buccaneer Lounge 7:00 Annual Banquet and Business Meeting Presidential Address: REFLECTIONS OF A CHEMIST WHO BECAME A PHARMACOGNOSIST Dr. Norman J. Doorenbos, College of Pharmacy …

… who have supported our efforts. First, the senior author wishes to acknowledge the fundamental importance to the whole concept and development given by the late Dr. Edgar Anderson, former Curator of Useful Plants at the Missouri Botanical Garden. He not only encouraged the study, but also provided the basic ideas for the methods that we have developed in the course of this work. Secondly, numerous individuals and organizations in the countries of Latin America and the West Indies, where Manihot esculenta is a primary source of food, have, by their friendly cooperation, made this work a reality. In Jamaica, the De …

Dear Dr. McVaugh: Until you suggested it, I hadn't thought of writing up my plant collecting in Mexico. But I can see that it might be desirable to have available in recognized botanical publications certain basic information about all botanical collections-areas covered, dates involved, notes on dominant or unusual species observed, etc. So here you have my contribution for the files. My first trip to Mexico was in the summer of 1939, and collecting, I must confess, was a side line-subordinated to getting a quick, general tourist's-and eye view of Mexico, gathering impressions of the country, the people, and lea …

accompanying maps showing plant distribution. It all will from perfect, since Panama presents many peculiarities not elsewhere. Local knowledge of, or interest in, the plants about zero. The usual answer to inquiry about native names Pretio, ---(a long pause) Estos son flores de la naturaleza there is not a single resident of Panama, native or foreig is interested enough to collect so much as a single herbar sheet. I worked on don Alejandro Mendez, Director of the M acional for the better part of two months, trying to sell on the idea of having school teachers in the outlying dist send in dried specimens of inter …

to have terminated his mission. In this new period of his excursions, he obtains a collection of plants of more than 3,000 numbers (FM, B D). In 1922 he published in Stuttgart the first phytogeographical map that is known on the national territory. In 1910 the prestigious German Americanist, Dr. Eduardo Seler, on going through Peru after having attended the Scientific Congress of Montevideo, makes a trip through the altiplano of Titicaca, through some provinces of the department of Cuzco and the valley of the Rimac to the town of Oroya, obtaining in his journey an appreciable lot of plants (B D). In 1911, Prof. H …

… 079 Life Sciences Univ. of California Berkeley 4, California May 26, 1950 Mr. F. L.Doelker W.R.Grace and Co. 2 Pine Street San Francisco, California Dear Mr. Doelker: I am considering a continuation of our South American botanical exploration which has been going on for the past fifteen years, by sending one of my assistants on a former expedition, Mr. Walter J. Eyerdam,of Seattle, to Ecuador. I wish him to collect plants and seeds from Guayaquil north along the coast and principally in the botanically unknown coastal mountains of Depto, Manabi. He would leave in November or December of this year and return in Ma …

Now a word about my collecting. I started out to collect originally for the Academy, with duplicates fo the Department of Agriculture, so that I could ask the staff there to identify the problem specimens for me. After I was in Mexico a short time, I added 2 other agencies to my list of recipients: one the Mexican Dept' of Agriculture, because it requires that, before any plants maybe sent out of the country, duplicates of all plants collected be deposited with them; the other, the University of Mexico, whose staff helped me identify many plants while I was in the country. So almost all my specimens, you see, wer …

… Ucayali they reach the city of Iquitos. From here they undertake the exploration of the Huallaga to the port of Yurimaguas and finally the Itaya River Basin. In the undertaking they collect more than 8000 plants (U S, N I, F M), giving partic- ular attention to the species used as stupefiers. Both botanists with authors of an ample bibliography on the flora of Eastern Peru were the first to introduce the technical names of the CUBE, AYAHUASCO and others whose use were already known by the natives. Also in 1919, Prof. Llewlyn Williams, conservator of the Department of Economical Botany of the Field Museum of Natu …

environment is quite striking as I begin to compare the plants of each locality. In Costa Rica, through the efforts of Dr. Jorge Leon, most of the clones occurring in that country had already been assembled in museum plots at Turrialba. By cooperation with various inter-American agricultural missions, and through departments of agriculture of several South American and Far Eastern countries, we were able to establish Turrialba as a center for bringing together clones from all over the world. By June of this year, the two plantings of local clones in Jamaica were ready for sampling. The methods of sampling are ess …

him in regard to the location for a budwood garden and small demonstration field planting, authorized by the United Fruit Company. COSTA RICA. The building program still continues at the Turrialba experiment station. However, this has now progressed sufficiently to permit major attention to experimental work. Dr. Theodore J. Grant is now established at Turrialba and writes enthusiastically of the splendid cooperation of Dr. Luis Cruz B., Director of the Departamento Agricola Nacional, and of other officials of the Costa Rican Government. The planting of more than a million clonal seeds for blight-resistance tests …

him in regard to the location for a budwood garden and small demonstration field planting, authorized by the United Fruit Company. COSTA RICA. The building program still continues at the Turrialba experiment station. However, this has now progressed sufficiently to permit major attention to experimental work. Dr. Theodore J. Grant is now established at Turrialba and writes enthusiastically of the splendid cooperation of Dr. Luis Cruz B., Director of the Departamento Agricola Nacional, and of other officials of the Costa Rican Government. The planting of more than a million clonal seeds for blight-resistance tests …

him in regard to the location for a budwood garden and small demonstration field planting, authorized by the United Fruit Company. COSTA RICA. The building program still continues at the Turrialba experiment station. However, this has now progressed sufficiently to permit major attention to experimental work. Dr. Theodore J. Grant is now established at Turrialba and writes enthusiastically of the splendid cooperation of Dr. Luis Cruz B., Director of the Departamento Agricola Nacional, and of other officials of the Costa Rican Government. The planting of more than a million clonal seeds for blight-resistance tests …

him in regard to the location for a budwood garden and small demonstration field planting, authorized by the United Fruit Company. COSTA RICA. The building program still continues at the Turrialba experiment station. However, this has now progressed sufficiently to permit major attention to experimental work. Dr. Theodore J. Grant is now established at Turrialba and writes enthusiastically of the splendid cooperation of Dr. Luis Cruz B., Director of the Departamento Agricola Nacional, and of other officials of the Costa Rican Government. The planting of more than a million clonal seeds for blight-resistance tests …

him in regard to the location for a budwood garden and small demonstration field planting, authorized by the United Fruit Company. COSTA RICA. The building program still continues at the Turrialba experiment station. However, this has now progressed sufficiently to permit major attention to experimental work. Dr. Theodore J. Grant is now established at Turrialba and writes enthusiastically of the splendid cooperation of Dr. Luis Cruz B., Director of the Departamento Agricola Nacional, and of other officials of the Costa Rican Government. The planting of more than a million clonal seeds for blight-resistance tests …