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202 Ornithocephalus, that was later dedicated to her. The expedition was led by Dr. Raymond A. Paynter Jr., Assistant Curator for Birds at the Harvard Museum of Zoology and Paynter suggested Dressler as the botanist who should accompany the group. However, strongminded Ruth Oberg had to give her consent: “I have just spoken to the botanist and it is fairly certain that he will be going along, provided, of course, he meets with your approval. I asked him about the orchid situation and he said that he is perfectly willing to give you first choice on all orchids collected and you may have the disposition of them” (R. Paynter in a letter to R. Oberg, March 25, 1954). In April of that same year, Oberg writes to Dressler and emphasizes her point: “If you collect a single plant which is known to me, so that I can make a record about it, you certainly are welcome to keep it. But if it is something which I will want to study, then I must reserve the right to keep it. Otherwise my making this trip would lose its point” (Letter to R. Dressler, April 19, 1954). When they met, they became immediately good friends, and for the rest of Oberg’s life, Dressler would call her “Tía” (‘aunt’, in Spanish). Oberg described years later the excursion to Laguna Ocotal, in an article published in the journal of the Mexican Society of Orchidology (Oberg, 1974). In the years to come, Oberg send large amounts of plants to Dressler for identification, always complaining that the answers came to slow because of too much work on the side of ‘don Roberto’. During the last years of her life, Oberg worked on a book on Mexican orchids, which unfortunately was never published. She wrote to Dressler: “You know how I’m going to start my preface? ‘This book has been compiled with the hope it will so irritate someone that he will write a better one!’ ” (Letter to R. Dressler, June 10, 1966). One of Oberg’s constant complaints was the quality of the then existing books on Mexican orchids, especially the one published by Norman P. Wright in 1958. “I certainly don’t want to see an Icon. of Mex. Orch. if it is not better than Norman Wright did his book. And he certainly did a job of messing up the text for that folio of Orch. and Humming birds” (Letter to R. Dressler, February 16, 1965). Among the collections made by Oberg we find Maxillaria nagelii L.O. Williams ex Correll (Oberg 95) and Encyclia baculus (Rchb. f.) Dressler & G.E. Pollard (Oberg 60). Epidendrum obergii A.D. Hawkes had been dedicated to her in 1957. LANKESTERIANA LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009. Federico (Fritz) Halbinger (1925-2007) (Fig. 58B), was the son of Christian Halbinger and, like his father, an expert on Mexican orchids. In 1969 he was cofounder of the Mexican Orchid Society “Amigos de las Orquídeas” and in 1970 and 1971 he made extensive collecting trips to the mountains of the Sierra Madre in the company of Eric Hágsater, Robert Dressler, and Glenn Pollard. These excursions were very successful, also in terms of the discovery of new species. Shortly after that, the journal “Orquídea (Mex.)” was founded, and Halbinger began with the publication of a series of articles, mainly on the genus Barkeria, that had become his specialty. For this reason Miguel Angel Soto Arenas honored him in 1993 with the new species: Barkeria fritz-halbingeriana Soto Arenas. In the following years Halbinger expanded his interest to the genera Odontoglossum and Laelia, publishing important monographic papers, again mostly in the journal “Orquídea (Mex.)”. From 1973 to 1974, Halbinger presided over the Mexican Society of Orchidology. Glenn E. Pollard (1900-1976) (Fig. 58C) was born in the town of Kelso, Missouri, as the son of a railroad man who moved frequently, so that Glenn’s schooling was in varied backgrounds. He graduated in mining and metallurgy at Stanford University in 1923. In 1950 Glenn and his wife Barbara made their first visit to Mexico and the country made such a favorable impression on them that when Glenn retired in 1955, they decided to spend the winter there and eventually made Oaxaca their home. “In Oaxaca the Pollards made friends with Ruth Oberg, who for many years had lived in the suburb of San Felipe del Agua studying orchids, and with Tom MacDougall, who also was widely known in biological circles as a veteran collector of plants and small animals, and was perhaps then the most knowledgeable person concerning the topography and biota of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Ruth introduced Glenn to the fascinating world of orchids and Tom reinforced his budding interest with advice and guidance. Soon Glenn began collecting a few plants, and when the Pollards built their own house in 1959, it included a small orchid house; Ruth Oberg contributed some plants to get the collection well started ”(Greenwood, 1978: 9). The new road program which started in the early 1960s in southern Mexico brought wonderful opportunities for Pollard to collect orchids.
A ossenbaCh — Orchids and orchidology in Central America C D Figure 58. A — Truman George Yuncker (1891-1964). Courtesy of the Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. B — Federico (Fritz) Halbinger (1925-2007). In Röth, 2007: 72. C — Glenn E. Pollard (1900-1976). Courtesy of Eric Hágsater. D — Edward Warren Greenwood (1918-2002) and his wife Mary Scobbie. Courtesy of Eric Hágsater. B 203 LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009.
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