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editorial revision of the manuscript and the care bestowed upon the 

 preparation of the plates. Finally, I wish to pay my tribute of 

 respect to the memory of my associate, Mr. G. A. Link, Sr., who 

 since the completion of the following catalog passed away on August 

 i6, 1916, under tragic circumstances. By his labors, which already 

 have been referred to, he contributed to the formation of the 

 collections upon which this catalog is based, and the writer will 

 always cherish pleasant memories of the weeks spent with him during 

 the expedition of 1910. 



Botanical Collections made in the Isle of Pines. 



Botanical collections have been made in the Isle of Pines as follows*: 



1. A collection was made in 1831 by A. H. Lanier, the French 

 consul at Trinidad, Cuba. This collection was studied and reported 

 upon by Achille Richard in the botanical volumes of Sagra's Historia 

 fisica, politica y natural de la Isla de Cuba, Volumes X and XI, 1845 

 and 1850, Volume XII, plates. Note has been made under various 

 species listed in the following pages when Lanier's specimens have 

 been mentioned by Richard. Richard cites thirty-eight species as 

 having been collected by Lanier. 



2. A collection of about one hundred and eighty-five specimens was 

 made by Don Jose Blain, probably about 1849, or 1850, and was 

 studied and listed by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, 

 Botanical Series, I, 1900, pp. 425-439. A number of new species 

 based on Blain's specimens were described by Millspaugh. These 

 specimens are noted in the following pages under the various species. 



3. A small collection was made at the southwestern corner of the 

 island (Pedernales Poini) by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, February 16, 

 1899, when the yacht Utotvana stopped there for a few hours. These 

 specimens were studied and listed, with notes and ciitical reports 

 upon a number of the species, by Millspaugh (Field Columbian 

 Museum, Botanical Series, II, 1900, pp. i-iio. " Plantse Utowanse.") 



4. In 1900, from June 27 to July 13 inclusive, Messrs. William 

 Palmer and Joseph H. Riley, under the auspices of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, collected in the vicinity of Nueva Gerona, excepting for 

 a part of two days which Mr. Palmer spent at Manigua, a plantation 

 along the Nuevas River above McKinley, which since has been 

 abandoned. A rather large collection was made by these gentlemen. 



5. In the spring of 1901, Mr. A. A. Taylor, principally under the 

 *See also, p. 95, reference to Dr. Wm. Trelease. 



