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ever produced. He was a native Colombian, although living 
before the land had received that name. Next came Triana, the 
Colombian who has achieved most in botanical research, who 
worked through the middle of the nineteenth century. His 
scientific volumes are monumental, although it is characteristic 
ot patronage of science there that they had to be published 
mostly abroad. Bogota contains many reminiscences of himand 
I can scarcely refrain from repeating some. Sefior Cortés fol- 
lows him and appears as his rightful successor, in his enthusiastic 
devotion, at considerable pecuniary loss, to botany. He has given 
his life to the science he loves, and that in a land where he is 
almost without a comrade in this particular field. 
Dr. Cuervo, Carlos Cuervo Marquez (following Spanish cus- 
tom, the name of his mother’s family follows his patronymic), 
has been Sr. Cortés’ main appreciator in Bogoté. He is a 
physician of prominence. He has published for use in schools a 
“Tratado Elemental de Botanica” (Elementary Treatise of 
Botany), also printed in Bogota, in 1913. This is divided into 
three parts, organography, vegetable physiology, and vegetable 
taxonomy. The last isthe longest. While appearing to be a most 
helpful work, and in its country more needed than such a book as 
that of Cortés, for students abroad it is of much less significance. 
The third Colombian botanical book I found by chance. It is 
the “Estudios Cientificos del Doctor Andres Posada” (Scientific 
Writings of Dr. Andres Posada), and, to fll out in English the 
subtitle, “with some other writings of his on diverse themes.” 
Truly the themes are diverse on which this professor of the 
University of Medellin discourses. I open on trigonometry, 
then physiology, then an account of his home city, Medellin, 
then a treatise on the serpents of Colombia, on the fish of Colom- 
bia, on the Hymenoptera, on the Vanilla, proposing two species 
as new, etc. A considerable number of short botanical papers, 
requently descriptive of new species, occur scattered throughout. 
Equally unknown to the zoologists, as these had been to us, were 
the descriptions of new species of animals, ranging trom insects 
to frogs and salamanders. Of course it is well that we should 
discover such volumes—this was published as long ago as tgog 
