SAFFORD: EpWARD PALMER “45: 
ern frontiers, from Arizona to the islands of Lower Cali- 
fornia, in which region he has aecomplished more than 
all his predecessors.” Among the botanists whose friend- 
ship Dr. Palmer greatly valued, and of whom he always 
spoke with gratitude, la Dr. George Vasey, Sereno 
Watson, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, and Dr. C. C. 
arry, whom he es on his first mission to 
Mexico, in 1878 
From that ine until the end of his life he made be benk 
visits to Mexico, often visiting unexplored fields opened 
up by railroads, from which he secured great numbers of 
species new to science. In 1880 he made extensive col- 
_lections in the states of San Luis Potosi, Coahuila, | 
Nuevo Leon. Preliminary lists of the ferns he collected 
while associated with Dr. Parry and when alone were 
made out by Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, and published, 
together with a list of the flowering plants by Sereno” 
Watson, in volume 18 of the i suveseaier of the American. 
a Academy. ee 
In 1885 he coheed in ie mountains of | oukeniens 
Chihuahua; in 1886, in the state of Jalisco, principally 
near Gtindalnjare:- the capital; and in 1887, near Guay-— 
mas, Sonora, and across the Gulf of California, on the — ae 
shore of Lower California. Lists of the plants collected on 
these expeditions were Laren in = Procee r ol 
