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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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COLLFX'TIXa L\ CUBA 103 groves much as at Cabanas. This furnished a second collection to compare with that from the Floridian coast. Returning to Pinar we revisited the pine-palmetto region and then Mr. Leng went to Havana to study the Gundlach collection. This is without doubt the most complete collection of Cuban insects to be found in any one place in the world. They are in small glass- covered boxes tightly sealed with gummed paper. Gundlach was a most ardent collector and most of the entomo- logical literature concerning Cuba is based on the material secured by him and his friend Poey. Part of Poey's collection is in Philadelphia but before it was sent Gundlach picked out for himself everything he did not already have. As the collection is thus of great historical value it is well that it is so carefully preserved, l)ut since the speci- mens cannot be removed from their boxes, minute examination is impossible and much of it is useless for further study. I went to Guane, the western terminus of the railroad. On account of the rains the road from the station to the town was out of commission and vre had to drive four miles through fields, circling the town and coming in from the opposite side. The stage was small and crowded to its limit, the mules balked several times, the harness broke twice, and we were an hour and a half making the trip. The mountains at Guane are across the river from the town and as the river was swollen by recent rains I did not examine them. They appear to be of the same type as at Mnales except that the peaks are isolated. Between showers I collected near the town in the grass fields con- taining scattered palmettos and other trees or bushes but no pines. When the time came to leave I still retained vivid memories of the stage ride from the station and also I wished to go early in order to collect from some flowers I had noticed near the railroad, so I ar- ranged for a coche particular. I thought I was going to get a four-wheeled con- traption of some sort but it turned out to be a cart, interesting in appearance and rather effective when it came to going across lots. If shaking is a remedy for a torpid liver, this cart, hitched to a pony of uncertain gait, is to be recommended. Havana, clean clothes, and a good dinner with Dr. de la Torre and Mr. Leng were reached shortly after sunset. Mr. Leng left for New York the next flay, but I remained in Havana and "helped" Dr. de la Torre pick out from his collection more than six hundred specimens of the rarest Cuban land shells as his gift to the Museum. These represented one hundred and thirty-nine species, most of which were not hitherto
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The coche particular, a two-wheeled cart, liitched to a pony of uncertain gait

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