ARGHBOLD EXPEDITIONS 
OF 
The American Museum oe Naturae History 
ADVISORY BOARD: 
Dean Amadon 
Harold E. Anthony 
Richard Archbold 
Leonard J. Brass 
Austin L. Rand 
Jerome G. Rozen, Jr. 
Richard G. Van Gelder 
24 May 1965 
Dear Lily May: 
Thank you for your letter of 15 th May, from which I was very glad 
to learn that you have finished the big job and got it off your hands. 
I'm sure you must feel relieved. 
This is a delayed report on the situation as regards the 1948 Cape 
York collection as I found it in Brisbane upon my recent visit there. 
I might mention that on the way out to Lae I landed at Sydney en route from 
New York on 7 April, and on the 10th flew on to Port Moresby without 
stopping off at Brisbane. On April 27 and again on the 29 th, on the return 
journey to this country, I visited the Queensland Herbarium and talked with 
Everist. I did not see the Cape York collection, but I was told it was 
kept in cupboards in Everist's room. Nothing has been done on it for some 
time for, as you know, Les Pedley, who had been assigned the job of going 
through the specimens still undetermined, was loaned to Canberra for 15 
months andHfas still away on that assignment. 
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Anyhow, I tried to impress on Everist your need for names, and on 
50 April he and Lindsay Smith were to start going through the whole collection 
and making sight identifications of everything still undetermined. That job 
should have been finished in a few days at most, and I hope that by this time 
you will have received the results. As requested by you, I asked Everist to 
enter all available determinations on one of your lists and return the list 
to the Arboretum. If this list has arrived, may I please see it after you 
have finished with it? I want to try to keep my field catalogue of the 
collection up to date as regards names. 
Enclosed are all the lists of determinations of the Cape York Collection 
that I have in my possession, as follows: 
Mosses, by Bartram, 1950 
Fungi, by Ray Langdon, 1951 
Woody dicots, by L. S. Smith, 1952 
Do. Do. 1952 
Bryophytes and lichens, by P. Bibby, 195 2 
Acacia, by Pedley, i 960 
Phanerogams, general, by Pedley, 1962 
Do. Do. 1965 
I should have a list of the monocots, excepting orchids, determined by 
Blake, but it is not in my files. I think you must have this. 
It seems probable that Everist will give the orchids to an amateur named 
DIRECTORS: 
Richard Archbold, president 
ARGHBOLD VAN BEUREN, Yioe-President 
Adrian Archbold, secretary and treasurer 
Harold TE. Anthony 
Joseph J. Mulholland 
Richard G. Van Gelder 
Archbold Biological Station 
Route 2, Box 380 
Lake Hu acid, Florida 33852 
