JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. XIX June, 1918 No. 222 
A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION TO COLOMBIA 
Dr. N. L. Brirton, DiRECTOR-IN-CHIEF 
Sir : With your permission, in the summer of 1917 I joined 
tained from lowland plains and from cordilleras, are a valuable 
addition to our herbarium. 
1. WitH Dr. H. H. Russy 
Professor Rusby and myself left New York, June 26, 1917, 
and after a voyage under continuously pleasant weather reached 
Cartagena the sixth of July. We stopped at two points en route. 
I received my first glimpse of tropical vegetation, unless that of 
the Botanic 
for the beautiful view from its summit, but also, be it confessed, 
because of an pea Buchnera found ther 
if t one afternoon, and that rainy, in the historic 
city o cece Little botanizing was then attempted, 
excepting that, following my interest in Scrophulariaceae, I 
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