f or 3iologlcal Society, Oct« 24, 
the colleations ,of Martius and Spix as mil as those of tlie otlx^ 
scientists wlio visited Brazil, a little more %hm a htiiidred years ago ha^e 
aadc" that country the type locality; for a great may spaeies of tropical 
forth ijnerioa.^ Svary 'botanist ia familiar with Mart* after plant namest 
and e^ery ornithologist , I surmi^i -with Hx&t^^S-pl-K after hird naEBS. 
iTer slmoe I Mm been studyiisg the gems Paspalim I Mfe loaged to ^isit 
Brkzilm' A year ago I sailed for Hio m iamiwo and spaat soiren months collet 
ii^g — And. BOW I mi longii^^ to rc baok» for Srasil is an inm^inBB comitry-— , 
larger than the United States exclmding Alaska* I visited only the highlands 
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Of:' the east* - - * 
v,e hara all haard of the heauty of the harbor of ^ao aj Janeiro. As 
we neared the entrance to the ba^ I iiM the sensation of sailing into 
mountain tops on a flood.— fhe fow pioturas of Iiio are froa ohOi^ographs 
i bought, tha rest are fraa-i^ om photographs. 
, Looking toward the bay froa oiio of the higli hills in the city. 
. 1968 « Pao de Msmm" or Sugar Loaf, m rtach the a-mmit h^/ Eiean^ 
of a car hni^ on a cable. Sugar Loaf has been olimhed several tines on tM) 
more slanting side* md once on thia ©td®-# ?on Lmtzermirgt the botanist ^ 
climbed tap tl^ creTioe to tl^ ri#.tt and wont dom on the Qth&r siia^ 
1965* CoroovadOs ^>Ghovlng its pTCcipltous faoo. f rom ttie sea tlm otatlii^^ 
is ireiy different. I had only half a d^'a Ijotanisiag on Gorco^ado this, ■" 
time ont in Jmrnax^ 1 s|Bnt sevex^al glorioaa days on it* 
I took the first boat to Fernambmoo {4 days after laming) in order to Ci 
collect ther@ before tbp drj seaBoa waa far ad^anTOd. fhara were two saints^ 
dayst a Snadayt and a revolution in that time^ that I had a tiying tiisa 
