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enough to convince me that the environs of Puente del 

 Inca are well worth a week's stay in January by a passing 

 entomologist, and that a few of the species described by 

 Staudinger, in Iris Vol. vii, from the Bolivian Andes would 

 probably be fouml here. The pass between Puente del 

 Inca and Chile is over 12,000 feet, but very easy to cross 

 on mule-back except for three or four months in winter, and 

 the vegetation of the Chilean side from 10,000 down to 

 about 6000 feet is much richer than that of the eastern 

 valleys. Juncal, where there is a comfortable inn kept by 

 a Frenchman, would also be a desirable halting-place for 

 any one who wished to collect on the western side of the 

 pass. I was obliged, however, to hurry on, and could do 

 little in the way of collecting on this occasion. When I 

 returned at the end of February the season was far 

 advanced, and I was again unable to stop as I had to 

 catch the steamer at Buenos Ayres. From Juncal a good 

 carriage road leads down to Salto de Soldado, whence there 

 is a railway connecting at Los Andes witli the Chilean state 

 railway to Valparaiso and Santiago, making it possible to 

 go in one day as I did from Puente del Inca to Santiago. 



In this beautiful city I met with the greatest hospitality 

 and civility from many men of science and distinction, 

 among whom I should especially mention Prof. Federigo 

 Philippi, the director of the Museum, a most distin- 

 guished botanist, whose father, the describer of so 

 many Chilean plants, still enjoys life at the age of ninety ; 

 Dr. Barros the Rector of the University, who was kind 

 enough to give me an introduction to a family from whom I 

 afterwards received the greatest possible kindness and help ; 

 and Sehor Dr. Vicente Isquierdo, who has the most complete 

 collection of Lepidoptera in Chile, and who has been good 

 enough to send some of them to the British Museum for 

 identification. The brother of the latter, Sehor Salvador 

 Isquierdo of Santa Ines, has ajarge and most interesting 

 collection of trees, and is developing the rising fruit-growing 

 industry in Chile in a manner worthy of the best European 

 horticulturists. Sehora Ana de Jordan, the hostess of Miss 

 North, was kindness itself, and, like many of the members 

 of tlie old Chilean families, gave me a charming' idea of the 

 state to which progress and civilization have reached in her 

 delightful and to most Europeans little-known country. 



Whilst waiting until the question of peace or war should 

 be settled I visited the Bahos de Cauquenes, a well-known 



