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known to the most influential Havanese of that day, who gave 

 him all the help and encouragement possible. 



In 1864, at the repeated invitation of don Simon de Carde- 

 nas, Gundlach decided to move his museum to the sugar es- 

 tate of "Fermina," of the Cardenas family^ where he could the 

 better attend to it. Here his collections were placed in an 

 upper room of the building used as a hospital for the slaves 

 of the estate. 



In 1865 he published his Catalogue of Mammals, Birds and 

 Reptiles, in the "Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Ysla de 

 Cuba" of Poey. The next year the municipality of Havana 

 commissioned him to take charge of the Cuban zoological ex- 

 hibit at the Paris Exposition of 1867. He personally attended 

 to the packing and shipping of these, as well as of his own, 

 while he followed in February of the next year, being awarded 

 a medal and diploma for his exhibits. The Exposition over, 

 he returned to Cuba in 1868, after visiting friends in Germany, 

 to repair the damage done the specimens, which were not 

 handled lightly en route. 



The "Ten Years Revolution" having broken out in October, 

 1868, it became dangerous to do any further collecting in the 

 field. In fact, Gundlach was once taken prisoner by some 

 Spanish soldiers and presented to their captain, who, much to 

 the amazement of his men instead of throwing him into a dun- 

 geon to rot, received him with open arms, at once setting him 

 at liberty, and at the same time advising him to give up his 

 excursions on account of the danger, so Gundlach, taking his 

 friend's advice, remained at the "Fermina" estate. Here, 

 since he could not go to the field, he did the next best thing; 

 he brought the field to the estate grounds by planting many 

 vines, shrubs and trees about his' quarters, thereby enticing the 

 butterflies, etc., to lay on their larvae's food plants, and thus 

 he collected many rare species without the danger of being 

 arrested, and perhaps shot. He was able to study at ease 

 many larvae that otherwise would have been difficult to ex- 

 amine, and got many of the shiest birds to nest in the trees 

 about his garden. Professor Carlos de la Torre, that eminent 

 Cuban naturalist of to-day, to whom I am greatly indebted for 



