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Before the lectures, opportunity will be given for inspection o 

 conservatories, museums, library, herbarium, herbaceous garden 

 hemlock forest, and other parts of the grounds. The Garden i< 

 reached by the Harlem Division of the New York Central Rail 

 way to Bronx Park Station, or by the Third Avenue Elevatec 

 Railway to Bronx Park. Lectures will close in time for auditor; 

 to take the 5:29 train to Grand Central Station. 



The first plant to reach Europe from the Philippines seems to 

 have been brought by an English sailor named Thomas Caven- 

 dish, who visited the islands in 1587 in the course of the third 

 circumnavigation of the globe. It was described and figured by 

 Clusius in his Rariorum Plantarum Historia in 160 1 as Anisum 

 Philippinarum insularum, and was, indeed, the star anise of the 

 East. This reference seems to have been deliberately rejected 

 by Linnaeus, and rightly too, for three hundred years later Fer- 

 nandez-Villar knew it only as sold by the Chinese. 



The first series of collections from the archipelago, consisting 



drawings, met a similar fate. It was made by a Jesuit priest 

 named George Joseph Kamel, and sent to James Petiver and 

 John Ray of London, by whom the notes were communicated 

 to the Royal Society and published in the Transactions. Ray, 

 moreover, devoted to it an appendix to the third volume of his 

 Historia Plantarum (1704), consisting of 96 folio pages, with ref- 

 erences to nearly 1,400 species, many, however, merely called by 

 a native name. It formed more than one consignment, the first 

 being recorded by Petiver on August 31, 1699, as among the 

 plants received in the preceding twelve months. Another lot is 

 said by Ray to have arrived in 170 1, and there were probably 

 others. Petiver figured several things from this source in his 

 Gazophylacium, and it is from this that Linnaeus made his very 

 few citations : for the latter calmly dismisses the entire work of 

 Kamel and Ray by the remark " descriptions imperfectae. 



