MORE RECENT HISTORY OF THE CINCHONA BARKS. 89 
district. From a practical point of view, it was, indeed, important 
enough to no longer be compelled to transport the barks around 
Cape Horn or over the Isthmus of Panama. This result remains in 
its significance uncontended to the favor of Mutis even though 
Triana has proved that it was not Mutis himself who first recog- 
nized a Cinchona outside of the above-mentioned original Cinchona 
region. 
The particular circumstances of the personal meeting of Hum- 
boldt with Mutis at Santa Fé de Bogota, in the year 1801, were, 
indeed, as Triana has shown, of so happy a nature that it may 
readily be conceived how Humboldt was led to esteem the Spanish 
dilettante higher than posterity, which is more inclined to estimate 
the achievements alone, independent of the background of the 
station in life of the respective individual. 
Humboldt and Bonpland took consideration of the collection of 
Mutis, and rendered prominent therefrom the particularly hand- 
somely executed colored drawings of the plants of his district. 
Humboldt, in a biography," written with warm recognition, dedi- 
cates to this man a memorial replete with honor, which even Lin- 
nzus has over-estimated, and termed “ phytologorum americanorum 
princips.” 
In 1777 the Spanish Government appointed Hipolito Ruiz 
director of a natural science expedition for the exploration of Peru 
and Chili. Ruiz, accompanied by José Pavon and the French — 
botanist, Joseph Dombey (p. 47), arrived in 1778, at Lima, and, 
after the return of the latter, continued his labors with Pavon. In 
1788 they likewise went again to Madrid, where Ruiz, in 1792, as 
the first fruit of the expedition, published the Quzno/ogia ; this was 
followed, in the years 1798 to 1802, by the Flora peruviana et 
chilensis. In Peru and Chili the task of Ruiz and Pavon was 
continued by their pupil, Juan Tafalla, who, in turn, was assisted 
by Mancilla,? and likewise contributed to the knowledge of the 
Cinchonas. 
While Mutis did not bring his labors to any conclusion, and the 
botanical collection left by him, perhaps not even complete, first 
1 Biographie Universelle, Tome XXX, Paris, 1821. The celebrated Plantes égui- 
noctiales Humboldt and Bonpland have adorned with a handsome likeness of Mutis. 
Regarding Mutis, compare further Triana’s Etudes, and Schumacher’s interesting dis- 
uisition, “‘ Linné’s Beziehungen zu New Granada.” Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft 
ir Erdkunde zu Berlin, 1880, pp. 98-110. : 
2 Compare regarding the above-named Spanish botanists, Colmeiro, La botanica y los 
botinicos de la peninsula hispano-lusitana, Madrid, 1858; as also Chiarlone y Mallaina, — 
Historia critico-literaria de la Farmacia. Tercera edicion. Madrid, 1875. The latter 
name Ruiz more completely, Don Ls spot Ruiz Lopez, He was born in 1754, at 
Belerado, in the old Castilian province of Burgos, and died in 1816, at Madrid. Gee 
