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more complete sets derived from these expeditions are at Washington, New 

 York, and the Gray Herbarium. 



F. W. Pennell made extensive exploration in 1917 with H. H. Rusby (the 

 first set of approximately 4791 specimens is at New York), and later with 

 Killip, as noted above, in 1922 and in 1925. The first set obtained on the 

 last expedition is at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. 



During the periods 1941-1946 and 1949-1953, R. E. Schultes collected 

 extensively in Colombian Amazonas. Comment on his activities will be made 

 later. 



Ecuador. During the period 1735-1747, the ill-fated Joseph de Jussieu was 

 botanist of the scientific expedition to Ecuador headed by Charles-Marie de 

 La Condamine. The years 1755-1771 were spent on the same mission in Peru. 

 A considerable part of Jussieu 's material was lost during the long period of 

 his residence in America. His remaining collections are at Paris. 



Richard Spruce, after serving five years in the field in the valley of the 

 Amazon and Rio Negro, was despatched to Ecuador where for ten years 

 (1855-1864) he supervised the gathering of seed and seedlings of Cinchona 

 to be sent to the British East Indies. During this long period he continued 

 diligently to collect his beloved cryptogams and much new vascular plant mate- 

 rial, of which he accumulated a total in Ecuador and Peru of approximately 

 2683 numbers. 



From 1876 to 1908, Luis Sodiro assiduously gathered a collection of some 

 6000 numbers. The first set is in Budapest. 



Bonpland in 1802 continued in Ecuador with the botanical part of the 

 von Humboldt expedition. 



M. Acosta-Solis has in recent years led resident botanists in the botanical 

 exploration of Ecuador. 



During the period of a year and a half in 1944-1945, while a member of 

 the Mision de Cinchona del Ecuador, for the last six months of this period 

 representing The New York Botanical Garden, Wendell H. Camp made ex- 

 tensive collections of 6523 numbers. Camp's collections are particularly im- 

 pressive in the excellence of the field data accompanying them and the 

 large series representing most collection numbers. 



Peru. Weberbauer in El mundo vegetal de los Andes Peruanos, 1945, 

 wrote a thorough account of the botanical history of Peru, dating from the 

 period of Pedro de Osma in 1568 to the contemporary time of 1940. The fol- 

 lowing brief has been extracted largely from his account. 



The most important of the early explorations of Peru was made from April, 

 1778, to April, 1788, ten years lacking seven days, by Hippolito Ruiz, Jose 

 Pavon, and J. Dombey {Travels oj Ruiz, Pavon and Dombey in Pent and 

 Chile, 1777-1788, by Hippolito Ruiz, translation by B. E. Dahlgren, Field 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. 21, 1940). Their collections are widespread, the princi- 

 pal existing set of approximately 2000 sheets is deposited at Florence. Dom- 



