45^ Field Columbian Museum — Botany, \'ol. I. 



October 20, 1889, until January 31, i8go, and yielded for these as yet 

 little known (except St. Vincent) islands a comparatively rich result. 

 This and the preceding voyages were made possible by the liberality 

 of Consul Leopold Krug. In 1891 Eggers went to \'enezuela byway 

 of the Barbados and Tobago at the expense of the Danish govern- 

 ment, where he investigated the region around Caracas, especially near 

 Santa Lucia. Six months during i8g;-92 were spent in Ecuador 

 studying the costal region around Guayaquil and especially near 

 Balao. In 1893 he went by way of La Guayra and Cura9ao to Mara- 

 caibo in \'enezuela, to make observations for a report on the asphalt 

 deposits near S. Timoteo on Lake Maracaibo. From 1893 until 1897 

 he was in Ecuador, especially in the province of Manabi on the 

 Hacienda el Recreo near Bahia de Caraquez engaged in agriculture. 

 He made many interesting discoveries in this hitherto botanically 

 neglected costal region. 



In 1899 he again visited Trinidad, Tobago and \'enezuela, in the 

 last especially the vicinity around Puerto Cabello and Caracas. 



Coll.: The collections of phanerogams and seaweeds from St. 

 Croix (1870-72, 1873-74) were presented to the Botanical Museum, 

 Copenhagen ; a part is also in Herb. Krug et Urban. The plants 

 from St. Thomas. Porto Rico, St. Christopher, Dominica and Trini- 

 dad (1880-86) were distributed to nearly all the greater botanical 

 museums and many individuals; they were partly sent out by Eggers 

 himself (hb. pr. : Xos. 1-1499) to Kew. the American museums, some 

 also to Copenhagen, and Herb. Krug et Urban, and partly by A. 

 Toepffer of Brandenburg, who sent out eleven centuries with peculiar 

 numbering to the remaining museums and private subscribers. The 

 remainder of the Eggers collection was distributed by Ernst Berge of 

 Leipzig under a third set of numbers, while the remnants of the 

 Toepffer herbarium given out by C. Rensch of Berlin were issued, 

 some under the Toepffer numbers, others under the original Eggers 

 numbers, while still others received a secondary or h series of num- 

 bers. These remnants also furnished the twelfth centur}'. In like 

 manner Eggers also distributed a collection "'Segmenta lignorum Ind. 

 occid." of about 350 species, also " Fructus et Semina Ind. occid." 

 about 500 species. The collections of Eggers' later expeditions were 

 personally distributed and are therefore consistent and reliable; the 

 best set together with all uniques, so far as the West Indies (except 

 St. John and Tortola) up to 1890 are concerned, are to be found in 

 Herb. Krug et Urban. The San Domingo Expedition yielded Xos. 

 1 500-2861 (San Domingo 1 500-2821, Haiti 282i/'-2845/', Turks 

 Island 2846-2861) and went into the herbaria of Kew. Hamburg, 

 Gottingen, Breslau, Leyden, Munich, de Candolle in Geneva. Dr. 

 Schrader (now geol. Landesanstalt, Berlin), Prof. Kurtz-Cordoba, 

 J. F. Hamilton; London, Institute of Forestry; St. Petersburg, Dr. 

 Keck (now in the Museum of the botanical garden at Wien), Bremen; 

 J. D. Smith, Baltimore: Prof. Palacky, Prague; New York Botanical 

 Garden; Prof. Mez, Halle; St. Petersburg Bot. Garden; Herb. Deles- 

 sert in Geneva. The plants from St. John and Tortola (Xos. 3001- 

 3299. 3 300*7-33 1 7a) are in Copenhagen and incomplete in Herb. Krug 



