Early Botanical Explorers on the Pacific Coast 25 
from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The botanists accompanying the 
expedition were Luis Nee and Thaddeus Haenke, both well 
trained in their science. Haenke, who seems to have been the only 
botanist at Monterey, which the expedition reached in 1791, col¬ 
lected the California Fuchsia ( Zauschneria californica) and Da- 
tisca glomerata. The Coast Live Oak ( Quercus agrifolia') and the 
Valley Oak ( Quercus lobata) were named by Nee from speci¬ 
mens brought to him from Monterey by two of the ship’s officers, 
but most of the botanical collecting was done in Mexico and South 
America. After Haenke’s death several years later in Peru, Reli¬ 
quiae Haenkeanae was published by Presl from his notes and 
drawings. 8 It is one of the most valuable publications on the flora 
of South America. 
Vancouver and Menzies 
Vancouver’s voyage around the world in the years 1790 to 1795 
was most important in bringing plants from the Pacific Coast of 
North America to the notice of the world. Archibald Menzies, 
botanist and surgeon of the expedition, was not only a well- 
trained botanist, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, but 
also a cultured gentleman. His journal is in the possession of the 
British Museum. The part pertaining to Oregon, Washington 
and British Columbia was published in 1923, in the Archives of 
British Columbia , Memoir No. 5, and that covering California 
was published in the Quarterly of the California Historical So¬ 
ciety, Vol. II, No. 4, January, 1924. In the former is given a list 
of the species credited to him in the North. As he was in Califor¬ 
nia in the late fall and early winter months only, he made but few 
