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spondcnce with Gundlach the famous phrase of Horace 

 "Animae pars dimidia mcae/' so when Gundlach entered 

 Poey's home, unexpected and unannounced, he spoke the 



words "Animae pars " to which Poey answered 



dimidia mcae,'* thus completing the phrase and 



identifying each other. Poey wzs afllictcd with a hemiplegia 

 that incapacitated him for any field work, and only on very 

 few occasions, after overcoming great difficulties by a supreme 

 effort of will (wwcr, obeying that irresistible impulse of the 

 naturalist, was he able to have the pleasure of seeing in nature 

 the many forms which he had known only in the laboratory. 

 Gundlach, on the other hand, living close to nature, was able 

 to furnish the specimens from which Poey described many of 

 his species. 



In December, 1853, f\)ey, don Nicolis Gutierrez, then 

 President of the Academy of Sciences of Havana, and don 

 Patricio Paz, chief of the Havana Carabineers, all enthusiastic 

 malacologists, determined upon a trip to the Isle of Pines, to 

 which they invited Gundhch. At the last moment it was 

 found inconvenient for them to go, so Gundlach was sent, the 

 expedition being financed by the other three, the catch to be 

 divided equally among the four. He spent some weeks in the 

 neigfiborhood of Nueva Gerona, working the Sierra de Casas 

 and Sierra de Caballos, with very good returns, especially in 

 land shells. 



April, 1855. found Gundlach in Pinar del Rio Province 

 visiting the botanist. Dr. Francisco Adolfo Sauvcllc. who 

 made it possible for him to continue to the home of don Jose 

 Blain at "El Retiro,"and to the Sierra de Rangel. In May of 

 t^' he discovered among these heights the wonderful 



li . s cubana (H. Sch.). which he at the time thought 



was Hymmitis morgane (Hubn.) ; also the Cuban Pine Warb- 

 ler. Dendroica pityophila pityophUa (Gundl.), and that beau- 

 tiful variety of Liguus fasciatus that Poey named blainiana 

 in honor of that generous host of all the naturalists of that 

 day. besides many other interesting forms of the Cuban fauna, 

 which make this range as famous for western Cuba as are the 

 niuuntains to the north of Guantanamo for the eastern part of 



