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Wyoming. During the months of May and September they explored, out of preference,
the departments of Lima, Junin and Huánuco, obtaining more than 7000 specimens of
plants. In a second trip that he realized the following year accompanied by Prof.
L.S. Beyen of the University of Wisconsin, he covered during the months of March
to September the same departments exploring by choice the forest of Eastern Peru.
Today he is engaged in the publication of his monumental work entitled "Flora of
Peru" of which there have been published the past year four large volumes and
numerous monographies on the result of his expeditions.

In 1923, Mr. Ernesto Gunther assisted by the German botanist, Dr. Otto
Buchtien, makes a large herborization in the tract of arable land of Arequipa on
the hillocks of Mollendo, a collection that is conserved in the University of
Lubeck (Germany). Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, specialist in systematic agrostology,
undertakes, in behalf of the Department of Agriculture of the United States, a very
rich collection of Gramineae in the departments of Lima, Junin, Arequipa, Puno and
Cuzco whose results he has presented in his work entitled "The Grasses of Ecuador,
Peru and Bolivia" edited in 1927, and the German ethnologist, Guenther Tessmann,
begins on a large scale the collection of plants in the departments of Loreto and
San Martin, prolonging his work until April 1926. His herbarium consists of more
than 6000 numbers (B D), whose state has given as a result an exceptionally large
number of new species for the region of the Amazon forests.

In 1924, the botanist of the United States, F. L. Stevens, realizes a trip
of exploration to the department of Junin and obtains in the neighborhood of Oroya
and Huancapistana a collection of a hundred"pliegos"? (packages) (U S).

In 1925, Prof. Francis W. Pennell of the Academy of Natural History of
Philadelphia, monographist of the family of the Scrophulariaceae coming from Chile,
travels over the departments of Arequipa, Puno and Cuzco, penetrating, in the
latter, the ravine of Pillahuata of the province of Paucartambo, where he obtains
a large number of species of the genus Claceolaria and then visits the surrounding