THE PINEDA MONUMENT. 365 
Botanico at Madrid, where, presumably, it is still preserved, for 
Vidal* who examined certain types in 1886, states that the 
material was then in an excellent state of preservation. Both 
Colmeiro ^ and Jordana « state that Nee's collections comprised 
10,000 species y of which Jt-flOO were new. Only a few hundred, 
however, were ever described, a very few by Nee himself, the 
others by Cavanilles. No duplicates seem to have been distrib- 
uted to other institutions and the material has not been avail- 
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able to other botanists. Nee is almost never quoted as a collector, 
and DeCandolle,^ in his extensive enumeration of botanic authors 
and collectors, does not even mention Nee in spite of the latter's 
enormous collections. If Colmeiro is correct in his estimate of 
the number of species collected by Nee, the record has perhaps 
been equalled or exceeded by but few botanists or collectors. 
Antonio Pineda was the naturalist in charge of the natural 
history investigations of the Malaspina Expedition.* Most 
Spanish authors consider him as a botanist, but I can find no 
evidence to this effect. Sternberg" ^ definitely states that he was 
a zoologist, which statement is verified by the inscription on 
the Pineda monument, quoted below, which contains a direct 
reference to the fauna, but no mention of the flora. 
Pineda was born in Guatemala in 1759, ^^ and was an official 
in the Spanish military service. Zaragoza " states that he was 
a colonel, but this needs verification. He died at Badoc, Prov- 
ince of Ilocos Norte, Luzon, in June, 1792. His monument, 
now entirely destroyed, was erected in Manila by his friends 
and colleagues. The monument is figured in the plate accom- 
panying this article. 
Very little is definitely known regarding Pineda and his life, 
and I have been able to find but short, meager, and at least in 
some respects, mostly inaccurate accounts of his work. Stern- 
berg's few notes ^^ comprise the earliest published record of 
•Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 13. 
•La botanica y los botanicos de la peninsula Hispano-Lusitana (1858) 
182. 
•Revista de Pilipinas 2 (1877) 174; Bosquejo geogrdfico e historico 
natural del Archipielago Filipino (1883) 356. 
'La Phytographie (1880) 391-462. 
•Jordana 1. cc. (1885) 173, 356. 
•Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1825) XIL 
" Colmeiro /. c. 
"La nustraci6n Filipina 2 (1892) 271. 
"Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1825) XIL 
