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Literature about Spruce Literature by Spruce Project publications Web resources Ethnobotanical resources Browse the collection notebooks Spruces diary
Diary for 1855 Diary for 1856 Diary for 1857
 

Spruce's travels for 1856
Taken from Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (1908)

  
Spruce did not keep a regular diary during his stay in Tarapoto, his accounts of the time he spent in there are gleaned mainly from letters and notebook entries.
Image: Plaza de Armas Tarapoto Resident in Tarapoto
Image: Cataratas at Ahuashiyacu Río Ahuashiyacu
Image: Forest 30km from Tarapoto-Yurimaguas

"Maynesian Andes", including the rich fern locality Spruce called Guayrapurima

Image: Tarapoto-Yurimaguas to S.Paredon Image: Tarapoto side of La Escalera
Image: Maynesian Andes Paredon Image: Cerro de la Escalera km17 Tarapoto-Yurimaguas

views of the mountain ranges where Spruce collected
Image: Cerro Isco summit Cerro Pelado and the Alto Cumabasa

 

Photographs courtesy of S. Knapp (The Natural History Museum, London)

 

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