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and as though that were not misfortune enough, the horse fell on its 

 back in a ditch and broke some of the most valual)le vials. Finally, 

 so many had been the mishaps that I felt grateful to see that the entire 

 collection was not ruined. 



The rest of the journey had fewer unexpected incidents. I did some 

 collecting at Cordova and in the vicinity of Mexico City. On the way 

 to Texas a flood at Monterey made it impossible to reach San Antonio 

 through I^aredo, so a westerly detoin- was made by way of Eagle Pass. 

 At Austin, I spent a week collecting inider very difficult conditions, for 

 the weather had been dry so long that the soil was desiccated and cracked 

 and the insects and spiders were hidden deep in the ground. Professor 

 Paterson of the Ihiiversity of Texas and Professor Brown of the Pease 

 School accompanied me on several of these excursions and most cour- 

 teously helped in the collecting. 



As may be easily imagined, the work of the trip was considerably 

 impeded by the heavy rains and floods which turned the forests of the 

 lowlands into swamps and lakes. With all that, however, the net result 

 of the expedition was large. The collections consist not only of some 

 2000 specimens of spiders, scorpions and other arachnids but also of 

 more than 400 vials containing many specimens each of myriapods and 

 insects. To this list nnist be added a few specimens of amphibians and 

 reptiles and a small collection consisting of nineteen Mexican snakes 

 given to me by Mr. Olmstead of Mexico City for presentation to the 

 Museum. 



Alexander PETRrNKEViTCH. 



E. (). Hnvpy, Photo., 1906. 

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