Excerpt from Luther S. Livingston: 1864-1914 He was just beginning to realize the opportuni ties for original investigation which the making of catalogues offered, when his employers sent him to Colombia to colleet orchids. During the eighte months he was in South America, he made three trips to the head of navigation on the Magdalena River, nine hundred miles, bringing down a thou sand cases of Cattleya Trianae. An equal number of cases containing some of the rarest and most beautiful orchids ever colleeted were transported in canoes a distance of nearly two thousand miles, from Arauca down the Orinoco River to Bolivar, whence they were shipped to the United States. He also made a colleetion of butterflies and bird skins for his own amusement while he was in the interior. The systematic notebooks in which the record of this trip is preserved and the delightful gossipy let ters to his mother furnish an abundant store of gen eral ethnological and geographical, as well as special botanical, information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.