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summit of Campanario, Nevada of Toledo, 15,000 feet altitude, and explored Michoacan, 

 Jesus del Monte, Santa Maria, Patzcuaro, Jorullo, and Uruapan, as far as Guadalaxara. 

 In December of the same year he went north to San Luis Potosi, and on his return 

 visited Mirador and Zacuapan. Accompanied by his friends Funck, Ghiesbreght, and 

 Linden, he next ascended the peak of Orizaba, living for eleven days in a cavern, 

 situated at about 11,000 feet, whence they collected between three and four hundred 

 species of plants at elevations between 9000 and 12,000 feet. In 1839 he went to 

 Tehuacan, Oaxaca, the Cerro de San Felipe, &c, in the Eastern Cordillera of Oaxaca 

 and Chinantla, and on his return explored the Misteca Alta, Petioles, laltepec, &c, 

 leaving Mexico in 1840 ; and on his return he was rewarded for his services to science 

 by being made a member of the Academie Royale of Brussels. Jurgensen collected for 

 Galeotti after the latter returned to Brussels and established himself as a nurseryman. 

 Nearly the whole of his plants in the Kew Herbarium are uniformly labelled " Talea, 

 Sierra San Pedro Nolasco," &c. Ghiesbreght travelled with Linden and Funck in 

 Mexico from 1837 to 1839, when he came home, returning alone to Mexico in 1840 

 for the purpose of more thoroughly exploring the country. He visited both the 

 southern and northern States ; crossed the great chain of the Cordilleras from ocean 

 to ocean three times ; traversed the vast plateaus, and ascended the volcanos of Colima, 

 Jorullo, and Sempoaltepec. Ghiesbreght subsequently made considerable collections 

 in Chiapas. Linden first went to Yucatan, and thence to the States of Chiapas and 

 Tabasco; visiting and exploring the districts of Ciudad Eeal, Cacate, San Bartolo 

 Jitotoli, Santiago de Tabasco, Teapa, Puyapatengo, &c, where he formed by far the 

 largest collections we have seen from those parts of Mexico. Linden afterwards 

 became the possessor of the famous nurseries at Ghent previously held by Verschaffelt, 

 and is, we believe, the only survivor of that band of collectors, to say nothing of 

 numerous others of later date, who so largely added to our knowledge of the botany of 

 Mexico. As our Enumeration testifies, Kew possesses very full sets of all except 

 Funck' s collections. 



About the year 1836 Don Joaquin Velasquez, who was attached to the Mexican 

 Legation at Rome, came to Europe, bringing with him seeds and dried specimens of 

 various Guatemalan plants, which formed the basis of Bertoloni's ' Florula 

 Guatemalensis.' 



Theodor Hartweg ; G. J. Graham. — Hartweg collected in Mexico during the same 

 period as Galeotti and his companions, having been sent out by the Horticultural 

 Society of London in 1836, though it does not appear that he fell in with them. The 

 principal object of his journey was to collect and transmit living specimens or seeds of 

 ornamental plants and trees ; but he also made large collections of dried plants, the 

 numerous novelties of which were published by the late Mr. George Bentham between 

 1839 and 1842, under the title of 'Plantse Hartwegianae.' Hartweg landed at Vera Cruz 



