100 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
ward, where he still resides and maintains an interest in mycolo- 
gical studies. 
Professor Charles F. Baker was chief of the department of 
botany in the Cuban station (1904-1907), and has nineteen col- 
lections of rusts credited to him, representing sixteen species, with 
three others as associate collector. He has always been an enthu- 
siastic and tireless botanical explorer. From Cuba he went to the 
Museo Goeldi at Рага, S. A., then to the College of Agriculture 
at Los Вайоѕ, Philippines, of which he is now Dean. 
Mr. Percy Wilson was assistant botanist from July to Decem- 
ber, 1904, and collected rusts in connection with Messrs. Earle 
and Baker. His more extensive association with the rust studies 
on the island is spoken: of later. 
Sr. Miguel Zarragoitia y O’Donovan, credited in part with one 
collection, and with material from phanerogamic collections, was 
assistant to Professor Baker, and is now employed at Havana in 
clerical work in the Department of Agriculture. 
Sr. Manuel Abarca y Vázquez, credited with two collections, 
was also assistant to Professor Baker. He is deceased. 
Professor Mel. T. Cook, pathologist of the station (1904-1906), 
had his chief interest in galls produced by insects, but has six col- 
lections to his credit, representing five species. He is author of a 
work on Diseases of Tropical Plants (1913), and has for some years 
been plant pathologist of the New Jersey College of Agriculture 
and of the Experiment Station. 
Professor Wm. T. Horne was pathologist at the Cuban Station 
(1904—1909), the first two years being assistant to Professor Cook, 
and has twenty-three collections of rusts, representing an equal 
number of species, credited to him. A few of these collections 
were made during a visit to Cuba in the year I917. He is now 
professor of plant pathology in the University of California. 
Mr. H. A. Van Hermann, assistant in horticulture (1904-1906), 
and later chief in horticulture (1914—1916), has the credit of two 
rust collections, and one other in association with Professor Baker. 
He was until recently chief in the Office of Vulgarization, and is 
owner of one of the largest nurseries in Cuba, and well acquainted 
` with the Cuban flora. 
Sr. P. Cardin, having one rust collection to his credit, has 
