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Odontoylossum Kraineri, a species which he 
introduced from Costa Rica in 18O8. 
Gotthcb Zahn travelled in Central America. 
iSGq-iS/cx The main object of his journey 
was the introduction of the rare Miltonia 
Endresii, discovered by Warscewicz about 
1849, but which had pre\ iously resisted all 
attempts at introduction. Zahn was equally 
unsuccessful with this plant. In 1869 he was 
proceeding" to Costa Rica, when he perished 
by drowning. 
George Downton received his early 
training in horticulture when under Mr. T. 
Chalhs, V.M.H., at Wilton House, Sahsbury. 
In 1870 he went to Central America, from 
whence he sent several consignments of 
Orchids to Chelsea. He met Endres, who 
was also plant collecting for Messrs. Veitch 
in Costa Rica, and served in the honour of 
assisting to bring Miltonia Endresii safely 
to England. Downton made several other 
journeys, but on the termination of his 
engagement in 1873 settled in Central 
America, where he died in 1895. 
J. Henry Chesterton was a very successful 
Orchid collector over a wide area in South 
America during the period 1 870- 1878. His 
special task was the introduction of Miltonia 
vexillaria, which had been made known by 
other travellers, although no living plants 
came to this country. After considerable 
difficulty Chesterton not only discovered its 
habitat, but succeeded in getting live plants 
to Chelsea, where the first one flowered in 
1873. Odontoglossum crispum also received 
his attention, a variety bearing the name of 
Chestertonii being at one time well-known. 
He also sent home the beautiful Masdevallia 
coccinea Harryana. This noted man con- 
tinued to collect plants, although m later 
years on his own behalf. He died in South 
America, 1883. 
A. R. Endres was engaged to continue 
Zahn's work, who, as previoush' mentioned, 
was drowned. Endres collected Miltonia 
Endresii, Cattleya Dowiana, and many others 
of somewhat poor horticulturtil value. His 
connection with Messrs. Veitch terminated in 
April, 1873. 
Gustav Wallis was born May 1st, 1830, at 
Liineburg, Hanover, and was deaf and dumb 
until six years of age, yet, strange to relate, 
he subsequently became very proficient 111 
foreign languages. In 1856 he went to Brazil 
in connection with a German horticultural 
establishment, and in 1858 he was engaged 
by Linden, when he commenced his 
remarkable journey across the continent of 
South America, from the mouth to the source 
of the Amazon. In 1870, he entered Messrs. 
Veitch's service, and proceeded to the 
Philippines in search of Phalaenopsis, but 
does not appear to have met with much 
success. In 1872 he was sent to New 
Grenada, and in 1875 he explored the north 
and central regions of South America. 
Wallis next visited Panama, where he was 
dangerously ill with fever, from which he 
somewhat recovered, but a second attack 
proved fatal, and he died there, June 20th, 
1878. He will best be remembered by 
Masdevallia Wallisii and Epidendrum Wallisii. 
Walter Davis went to Chelsea in 1870 and 
served under John Dominy in the New Plant 
Department, eventually becoming foreman of 
Ihe Nepenthes and Fine Foliage Plants, In 
1873 Davis was selected with the special 
object of visiting South America, for the 
purpose of securing a quantity of Masdevallia 
Veitchiana, then very scarce. He met with 
much success, and also sent home others of 
this genus, one of which, proving to be new, 
was named Masdevallia Davisii by Professor 
Reichenbach. Some idea of the remarkable 
enthusiasm of this man may be obtained 
from the fact that during his stay in South 
America he crossed the Cordilleras of the 
Andes in Peru and Bolivia no less than 
twenty times, at elevations of 14,000 to 
17,000 feet, and he traversed that vast 
country from one side to the other, along the 
whole length of the Amazon valley. 
Peter C. M. Veitch collected in Australia, 
South Sea Islands and Borneo, during the 
years 1 875- 1 878. The whole of his collection 
of plants made in the Fiji Islands was lost 
m a gale at sea, and in 1877, when again 
visiting Australia, he had the misfortune to 
be shipwrecked off the north coast of that 
country, and for a second time everything 
