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morning of August 24, and were joined there by Professor F. S. 
“arle, formerly Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 
established in Cuba by the United States Government. 
The afternoon of the twenty-fourth we spent along the north 
shore, in the vicinity of Cojimar, securing there a number of 
herbarium specimens and several photographs of the vegetation, 
including a negative of the cactus, Cephalocereus Bakeri, hitherto 
unphotographed. 
On the twenty-fifth we took the train for Herradura, in the 
province of Pinar del Rio, and for the remainder of the time con- 
fined our operations to-that province. At Herradura we were 
for ten days the guests of Professor and Mrs. F. S. Farle in 
their typical, thatched roof, Cuban country home, making this 
our base, and taking daily trips into the savannas and palm bar- 
rens for a radius of several miles. Herradura lies in the midst 
FIG. 2. Sierra San Vicente. North face.. Bombax emarginatum and agaves 
occupy the perpendicular rock wall. 
