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1787, the spe part containing the civil history not till some 
years after. An English edition, entitled “‘ The se  Spagre 
Natural aA Civil History of Chile’ * was published i in An 
entire chapter of 36 pages is devoted to erbs, cose and 
trees,’ chiefly plants of economic as being described and 
named. ‘There is also a systematic list ‘‘ of the various species 
of natural productions ’’ which includes the plants described in 
the body of the work. The German Adalbert von Chamisso 
collected (1816) around Concepcion. 
J. Miers resided several years in La Plata and ‘Chile. He 
landed at Buenos Aires in March, 1819, and traversed the 
country to Mendoza through Luxan, Salto and the provinces of 
Santa Fé, Cordoba (Cordova), and Saas Luis. From Mendoza he 
exceed the Paramillo range and the Uspallata desert and arrived 
at the valley of Tupungato. He then journeyed to Santiago and 
on to Valparaiso. Most of his numerous drawings, descriptions 
and notes have never been published. His herbarium of 20,000 
sheets and MSS. are mostly at the British Museum. He published 
his ‘‘ Travels in South America ’’ in 1825, and monographs of 
various orders largely dealing with South "American plants. 
Cuming in 1819 minde'’ voyage to South America and 
settled at Valparaiso. His most important work was connected 
with concholcgy, but he collected many botanical specimens, 
especially in Chiloe, the province of Maule, and in the neigh- 
bourhood of Concepcion, of Valparaiso and of © uimbo. 
lexander Caldcleugh aided Cuming, and his collections in- 
cluded plants from Santiago and Coquim mbo. He also crossed 
the Pampas from Buenos “Aires to Mendoza. Capt. Beechy 
visited Concepcion in 1825 and Valparaiso in 1825 and 1828, and 
also Coquimbo. my s plants were described by W. J. Hooker and 
. W. Arnott, ‘‘ Botany of Capt. Beechy’ s Voyage,’ 1841. 
Hooker and Aamo had previously published in Botanical Miscel- 
lany, vol. iii., 1833, p. 129, under the title “C ontributions 
towards a flora of South America and the Islands of the Pacific,” 
an account of plants collected by numerous workers: Bertero, 
Bridges, Cruckshanks, Cuming, Miers, Gillies, Macrae, Darwin, 
a Bri 
California, "1827- 865. ia oad opted "plants bat ‘dia neighbourhoo d 
plants received from him came from the province of Colchagua. 
He left a for the north of Chile and explored = 
along jas ei to Soca mbo, some <i pe area taking ‘the 
mate to Valparaiso, passing by Andacolla and Petorca and 
descenditig the valley of Aconcagua he went by Quillota (Quit- 
tota 
(si of Capt. King’s expeditions npg ated back 
plants from Chile, Fuegia, etc. These are at Kew, the British 
Museum, and Edinburg oh... See:* ee of the Voaem of 
