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securing of butterflies alone some 20,000 specimens which they 

 collected with the help of a young Bagobo specially trained by 

 them for this work. From Sibulan as a base, they undertook 

 a number of exploring trips into the surrounding country; the 

 especially notable expeditions were two successful ascensions of 

 Mount Apo 4 on February 20 and March 16, 1882, and a trip to 

 the mountain Parag, north of the volcano, which led to the 

 discovery of a new species of Rafflesia, a giant parasite, the open 

 flower of which measured 80 centimeters in diameter; this 

 species was afterwards called Rafflesia schadenbergiana Goep- 

 pert. 6 



The expedition to Mindanao ended with an exploration of 

 the burial caves on the small island of Samal, which was greatly 

 facilitated by the authorities at the Spanish Naval Station at 

 Davao, who placed the gunboat Nuestra Senora del Buen Viaje 

 at the disposal of the travelers. The exploration of this island 

 was not less successful than had been that of the hinterland of 

 Davao, and Schadenberg enriched his collections with a number 

 of skulls, prehistoric dugout coffins, and many specimens of 

 equally old Chinese pottery. 



The end of July of the same year saw Schadenberg and his 

 treasures back in Breslau. It was his intention, after having 

 established his family, to dedicate himself primarily to the 

 working over of his collections. Unwilling to bind himself to 

 any institution or museum, he secured the financial support 

 for such work by purchasing the Hofapotheke 6 in Glogau, 

 Silesia, where he spent the following three years (1883 to 1885). 

 It was mainly during this time that he entered into friendly 

 relations with several European museums and was made 

 responding member of various anthropological and ethnograph- 

 ical societies in Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Leyden, and Paris. 

 Official recognition of his scientific zeal was given by the 

 bestowal of some orders and crosses. His publications on the 

 results of his trips he supplemented with a number of lectures; 



4 On Mount Apo the explorers, at each of their ascents, left their cards 

 on the very apex in a bottle, placed neck down in the ground, one of 

 which was found some nineteen years later by Phelps Whitmarsh, as related 

 m his "Ascent of Mount Apo," The Outlook, March 23, 1901. 



* Two rather young buds of this plant growing close together on a stem, 

 when roughly weighed in the field, were balanced by a heavy double-bar- 

 reled rifle and six Bolld bullets. 



8 A drug store, given official distinction by such title. 



