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Had he been spared to carry out his plan of settling down in England he would have 

 crossed the Atlantic forty times! Many of Skinner's discoveries adorn Bateman's 

 gigantic book on the orchids of Mexico and Guatemala. 



Thomas Coulter.— Dr. Coulter collected in California from 1831 to 1833, and then in 

 Sonora, and was the first from whom we have specimens of the botany of North-western 

 Mexico. He also collected largely in Zimapan and Real del Monte, where he was 

 Surgeon to one of the Mining Companies; but this appears to have been previous to 

 his visit to California. His collection went to Trinity College, Dublin, where Coulter 

 preceded Dr. Harvey as Curator of the herbarium. After Coulter's death in 1843, 

 Harvey distributed the duplicates of the collections, and the first set is at Kew. 



G. Andrieux. — An excellent collector of Mexican plants, concerning whom we have 

 been able to find no particulars beyond the fact that he sent dried plants, collected in 

 the States of Oaxaca, Puebla, and Mexico, to Delessert before 1835. The Hookerian 

 herbarium contained a set of Andrieux's plants ; but Gay's herbarium, purchased by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, included a much fuller set, inscribed " Dedit Andrieux, 1834." 

 The plants appear to have been very carefully sorted and numbered, hence it was not 

 diflicult to determine those that had been described by DeCandolle and others. 



Henri Galeotti ; August Ghiesbreght ; Jurgensen; Jean Jules Linden ; Nicolas Funch 

 —From 1835 to 1840 Mexico was the scene of great activity among botanical and 

 horticultural collectors. The names we have grouped here belong to Belgians, or to 

 collectors sent out under Belgian auspices ; and they collected more or less in company 

 during some portion of their sojourn in Mexico. Galeotti was a native of Versailles, where 

 he was born in 1814 ; and in 1835 he left Hamburg for Mexico under the patronage of 

 a Mr. Vandermalen. He spent five years there, collecting chiefly in the States of Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, and Oaxaca ; and his collection of dried plants was estimated at 7000 to 

 8000 species *. With the assistance of various botanists, chiefly of Martens of Louvain, 

 a large portion of the collection was elaborated, though not in all cases very critically. 

 Starting from Vera Cruz, Galeotti first visited Jalapa, and during a stay of six months 

 was able to collect many living plants, especially orchids. He next explored the plains 

 of Perote to Puebla as far as the base of the volcanic chain of Iztacihuatl ; he also 

 botanized in the plain of Mexico three several times, and in 1836, accompanied by 

 Mr. Ch. Ehrenberg, of Berlin, travelled for two or three months among the mountains 

 of Eeal del Monte. Later he visited the Western Cordillera of Mexico, Guadalaxara, 

 and Lake Chapala, and made a rapid journey to San Bias on the shores of the Pacific. 

 In 1837 he went to Guanajuato and the Volcan de Popocatepetl, bringing thence a 

 collection of plants from the highest limits of vegetation. He also ascended to the 



* Botanische Zeitung, 1858, p. 119. 



