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“botanists”? that I believe to be in the same class, but about 
whom there might remain some room for doubt, such as Davila, 
Goicoechea, Pereira and Pierola. 
Behold, then, the fairy-tales: 
IGOLINO, Giuseppe (e-go-le’-no), Italian botanist, b. in 
Florence in 1759; d. there in 1833. Hecame to the United States 
in 1803 on a scientific mission, and remained till 1807 as Italian 
vice-consul in North Carolina. He sent to Europe several cases 
of seeds, and discovered some new gramineals, which he de- 
scribed afterward in his ‘‘Agrostographia’”’ (Florence, 1824). 
He was relieved from his consular duties in 1807, but two years 
later was appointed consul at Buenos Ayres. During his stay 
in the United States his attention was called to the Mexican 
hieroglyphs, which had already occupied the attention of many 
distinguished men of science, and it is asserted that he found a 
key to them, but lost the manuscript among others when he was 
shipwrecked i in the Straits of Bonifacio on his return to Genoa 
in 1808. He was the first European to study the anthropology 
of America, and thus led the way to the work of Darwin, Boyer, 
De Quatrefages, and Brasseur de Bourbourg. During his stay 
in South America in 1809~’19, Igolino formed a rich collection 
of plants and engravings of animals and insects peculiar to those 
latitudes, studying also the cryptogamic plants of Brazil. He 
published “Plantae cryptogamae Brasiliae’”’ (Florence, 1829), 
and read several papers before the Academy of Florence on the 
“Effects of the Colored Upas,’”’ and on the several species of 
strychnia peculiar to South America. See “Vita illustrissimi 
Giuseppe Igolino’’ (Florence, 1841). 
[The books credited to Igolino exist; they were by the well- 
known botanist Giuseppe Raddi (1770-1829), who was, like the 
fictitious Igolino, a Florentine. Raddi accompanied the Austrian 
expedition to Brazil in 1817, and returned to Europe in June of 
the following year; otherwise he was never in America.] 
KEHR, Gustav Herman (kair), German botanist, b. in Frey- 
singen in 1581; d. in Magdeburg in 1639. He was professor in 
the universities of Tiibingen and Halle, and afterward librarian 
of the Prince of Lippe-Detmold, who sent him in 1621 to America 
to study the plants of that country. Kehr went first to New 
Spain, and after several years crossed the Isthmus of Panama. 
and, Sailing for Patagonia, studied the plants of the country 
that is now the Argentine Republic from 1624 till 1629, visiting 
