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or crav/f ish-f ishery of Juaa Fernandez is one of the largest of its kind, 
and the total catch of over 87,000 individuals as given in the Chilean 
fishery statistics for 1925 for the two companies operating in those waters 
exceeds, on a poundage basis, the combined catches made in the States, in 
California and Florida, where a nearly related species is taken for the 
market A The extremely generous hospitality of Senor Rone Durand and hj^ . 
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family rendered most pleasant and profitable a sojourn of twenty^ays on tife 
veritable earthly paradise. Few places are blessed v/ith v/j 
such an ideal, healtfiful, an d fruitful climate^ ps^Dr. Skottsberg, 
t he" we fT-lcnownSwe dish botaniftlT, has remarked: "Prpm a botanical point of 
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view, Juan Fernandez is one of the v/orld’s most famous places 
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65 per cent of the total number of vasuular plants (phanerogams and ferns) 
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are confined to that small group of islands. ^ It is as\if one had been 
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carried back to a past geologic period, as if one v;aled\about iin a living 
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museum cjrowded with rare specimens. Sq many wonderful plants are brought 
together here on a small area that one must^touch them to ^alize that one doe 
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Preiiminary studies, on sorae of the zoological collections 1 
brought back with me, have disclosed a distinct species of New Zealand crab 
new to this faung,^ and a spider of a genus knovm from South Africa, Australia, 
and New Zealand, and*found oere, the first record for the V/estern hemisphere. 
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The zoological evidence of the Polynesian and subantarttic affinities of the life 
of Juan Fernandes has never been as strong <j r f v ro neunced as that based on 
botanical data. The tv/o finds tkeseiese just reco^lnted are therefore 
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It is a nleasure to acknowledge the cordial reception accorded me 
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at the National Museum of Chile in Santiago by Dr. Ed^rdo Moore, the Director 
of that Institution, Dr. Juan Brtlggeft of the University of Chile, and Dr. 
Carlos E. Porter, 
Indefatigable Chilean zoologist', ,SL-X¥- i e d" ~ and L rue 
