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April, 1865, he accompanied several expeditions against the 

 Mexican republicans (Juarists), was promoted to a lieutenancy in 

 September, 1865, but was made a prisoner of war in Oaxaca, 

 October, 1866, after a siege of one month. After regaining his 

 liberty in April, 1867, he made several trips into Southern 

 Mexico and returned to Denmark in November of the same year. 

 Early in 1868, as lieutenant, he again entered the Danish service 

 and was assigned in i86g to the troops in the Danish West 

 Indies. In 1870 he was made first lieutenant and in 1879 was 

 promoted to captain and placed in command of a company. His 

 garrison was, 1869-72, St. Croix; 1872-73, St. Thomas; 1873-74, 

 St. Croix; 1874-85, St. Thomas. In 1885 he retired from the 

 service on a pension, remained in St. Thomas until 1887, and 

 now lives at Charlottenlund, Denmark. 



Eggers began the activity which has been so rich in results for 

 the knowledge of the flora of the Antilles in 1870 with the investiga- 

 tion of the island of St. Croix, whose vegetation he described and 

 enumerated in 1876 in his Flora of St. Croix (cf. Urb. Symb. I, p. 41). 

 After his transfer to St. Thomas he studied the plant society of that 

 island and made side trips to Water Island, Crab Island and St. John, 

 and combined the results of his observations in 1879 in his Flora of 

 St. Croix and the Virgin Islands (cf. Symb. I, p. 42). In 1880 he 

 began the distribution of his Flora Indiae Occidentalis exsiccata. This 

 included not only the plants from St. Thomas, but also those col- 

 lected on Dominica (1880-83), St. Kitts (December, 1882), eastern 

 Porto Rico (June, 1881: April, May, 1883), and also those collected 

 by his assistant on Trinidad in the autumn of 1883. In the months 

 of April until July, 1887, Eggers, supported by the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences, made a journey of investigation and collection to San 

 Domingo, which extended from Puerto-Plata out over Jarabacoa, the 

 Monte Barrero Lacumbre, to the Valle Nuevo and the Pico del Valle 

 (2630 m.) in the Sierra de Cibao (cf. Symb., p. 45). On the return 

 voyage he visited the vicinity of Cape Haitien in Haiti and the south- 

 eastern Bahamas, Turks Island (Grand Turk, July 17, 1887), where the 

 plants peculiar to this island were again discovered. On the follow- 

 ing voyage Eggers, supported by the Danish Carlsberg fund, investi- 

 gated the islands St. John and Tortola (December, 1887; January, 

 1888), and went by way of St. Thomas, Haiti (Jacmel, Port-au-Prince, 

 Jeremie) to Jamaica, where he collected in the eastern part (Guava 

 Ridge, Catherine's Peak, etc.) until the end of January, 1888. Ffom 

 here he turned to the Bahamas, for whose botanical investigation the 

 British Association of London had extended the necessary means, and 

 during the month of February and until the middle of March, 1888, 

 visited Acklins, Fortune, Long, Hog and New Providence island. 

 Eggers collected in the mountains of eastern Cuba from February 

 until May, 1889, especially on the Rio Guaso near Guantanamo, 

 Arroyo gallego, Rio Seco, La Piedra, El Palenquinto. El Jaguey, La 

 Clarita and Santa Ana Monteverde (830 m.). La Prenda and Caiman- 

 era. The investigation of the Lesser English Antilles, Tobago, 

 Grenada, St. Vincent, Bequia and the Barbados was carried on from 



