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Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman.— The editors of this work visited 

 Guatemala on several occasions between 1857 and 1874, and gave what time they could 

 spare from their zoological pursuits to botany. They paid special attention to ferns, 

 and made a collection of some 220 species, chiefly in the region of the Volcan de Fuego 

 and the Volcan de Agua. This is by far the fullest set of ferns we have seen from 

 Guatemala, and it contains a considerable number of novelties. Besides the ferns, there 

 are two separate collections of flowering-plants in the Kew Herbarium — one, consisting 

 of about 250 species, dated 1861, and the other, consisting of about 350 species, dated 

 1873-74, and ascribed to Mr. Salvin alone. These collections, although small, are 

 specially interesting, as they are mostly from considerable elevations on the Volcan de 

 Fuego, and afford nearly all we know of the subalpine vegetation of Guatemala. We 

 are further indebted to Mrs. Salvin for the coloured illustrations, which were selected 

 from a number of admirably executed sketches painted by her in the country itself. 



The collectors of the French Scientific Commission to Mexico, 1865-66. — Foremost 

 among these was E. Bourgeau, whose services to botany are familiar to every oDe 

 engaged in systematic work, and^with whom was associated L. Hahn, alluded to in a 

 preceding paragraph. Bourgeau's Mexican collections, like all his previous ones from 

 other parts of the world, are very extensive, and probably more nearly exhaustive of 

 the districts traversed than those of any other collector in Mexico, as they contain the 

 most inconspicuous as well as the showy and prominent plants. He died in 1877, 

 while still engaged in the arrangement of his Mexican plants in the Paris Museum 

 of Natural History *. Kew possesses a fine set of them. Independently of the 

 two collectors named, several members of the military staff of the expedition made 

 collections of dried plants f , notably Dr. Gouin, chief of the military hospital at Vera 

 Cruz, a few of whose plants are at Kew. Then there were Captain Emy, Dr. Weber, 

 Dr. Eeboud, and Mr. Thomas, attached to the marching columns, whose names appear 

 as the collectors of various plants described by Founder. Thiebaut, a naval lieutenant, 

 collected in the vicinity of Acapulco ; Virlet d'Aoust in San Luis Potosi ; and Guillemin- 

 Tarayre, Goudet, and Franco are other names of collectors of Mexican plants received 

 at Kew from the Paris Herbarium. There is also a small collection at Kew made by 

 Bilimek, who went out as chief gardener to the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian. 



Paul LSvy, a French engineer who resided in Nicaragua for some years, collected 

 in the neighbourhood of Segovia, Granada, &c, and wrote some interesting descriptions 

 of the vegetation J. He specially notes, in contrast to the flora of South Mexico, the 

 paucity of species, and the comparative rarity of Bromeliacese, Cactacese, and epiphytal 

 orchids. The Kew set of his plants was received in 1872. 



* L'lllustration Horticole, 1877, p. 72. 



f Fournier in ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' 6 me serie, ix. p. 262. 



t Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Franc6, xvi. pp. 275 et 420. 



