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sighting Cape San Antonio on the western end on New Year's 

 Day, making Havana harbor on the evening of the 4th of 

 January, 1839, but not landing till the next morning. They 

 stayed in Havana till the loth, when they left for Matanzas, 

 there to meet their host, doing so on the I3th at the coffee 

 estate "San Antonio," better known as "El Fundador de Cani- 

 mar," situated on the right bank of the Canimar River in 

 Matanzas Province. Pfeiffer returned soon to Germany. Otto 

 made a few collecting trips about the Island, then continued 

 to Caracas, Venezuela, while Gundlach remained, but always 

 with the idea of continuing to Surinam, as per his first ar- 

 rangement. While still in Cuba he was advised of the death of 

 his good friend Dr. Hille, thus cutting off his opportunity to 

 visit Surinam. Gundlach, nothing daunted, wrote his friends 

 in Germany to sell no more stock, that he would repay what 

 he had used with Cuban instead of South American specimens. 

 He at once set to work collecting and shipping material till he 

 had paid all his indebtedness to them, nor did he stop then, 

 but as he used to say that he had no expenses, Booth having 

 taken him into the family, he continued to send specimens to 

 Germany long after he had settled all financial matters at 

 Cassel. 



In 1841, Booth moving from "Fundador de Canimar" to 

 the estate "San Juan" near Cardenas City, Gundlach went 

 with him, there widening his range of operations, taking longer 

 trips, and among other things, in March, 1844, he secured his 

 first specimen of the beautiful Calypte helenae (Lembeye), 

 dedicating the species to Mrs. Booth, whose name was Helena. 

 And here an example of Gundlach's unselfishness: he turned 

 his notes and description of the species over to Lembeye, who 

 was then writing a book on Cuban Ornithology ("Aves de la 

 Ysla de Cuba," por Juan Lembeye, Habana, 1850, today a 

 rare work), and who thus appears as the author of one of 

 Gundlach's species. This is only one of the almost daily in- 

 stances of Gundlach's unselfishness ; in the same way he has 

 lost many other species in all the branches of Zoology. Nor 

 did he know the value of money ; he said he needed none, at 



