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204 A LANKESTERIANA C D Figure 59. A — Clarence Klaus Horich (1930-1994). Courtesy of Rudolf Jenny. B — Jack A. Fowlie (1929-1993) during a visit to Costa Rica (Fowlie on the right. On the left Clarence Horich). Courtesy of Rudolf Jenny. C — Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero (1915-1981). Courtesy of his daughter, Leonora Rodríguez. D — Pescatoria cerina (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb. f. Illustration by R.L.Rodríguez in Rodríguez et al., 1986: 203. LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009. B
ossenbaCh — Orchids and orchidology in Central America He followed the bulldozers through country hardly explored botanically and still unlumbered and the trees being knocked down by the road gangs made for extremely rich collecting. Pollard’s collection became very important, with many rare plants, and turned soon into a focus of interest for orchid enthusiasts and specialists, who came often to visit, among them Louis O. Williams, Calaway H. Dodson and Robert L. Dressler. All became friends and Dressler’s interest in Mexican plants led to collaboration and to the joint authorship of The Genus Encyclia in Mexico (Dressler & Pollard, 1974), Pollards most important contribution to Mexican orchidology. Although he published some eighteen papers on Mexican orchids, Glenn Pollard regarded The Genus Encyclia as his outstanding effort, and the vindication of his hard work and long studies. A loner by nature, his poor health in later years reinforced his dislike for people in groups. Despite this, he was friendly and warm with people he liked, though not everyone met with his approval (Greenwood, 1978: 4). His friends named in his honor Encyclia pollardiana (Withner) Dressler & Pollard, Malaxis pollardii L.O. Williams, Lepanthes pollardii H.A. Hespenheide and Oncidium pollardi, Dodson & Hágsater. Withner and Harding honored him with the new genus Pollardia. As a founding member of the Mexican Association of Orchidology, Pollard took an active role in attempts to widen Mexican interest in the orchids of the country. Pollard died in Oaxaca, on March 27, 1976. “The Greenwoods of the Canadian Embassy in Washington have just left. You may have heard of them, their main interest is in the cacti and in photography, but they also have an interest in orchids and quite a bit of knowledge of them” (R. Oberg in a letter to R. Dressler, August 11, 1960) (Fig. 58D). Edward Warren Greenwood (1918-2002) first came to Mexico with his wife Mary in 1958-1959, when they spent two weeks in Mexico City. There they met plant explorer Tom MacDougall, and Drs. Helia Bravo and Eizi Matuda. During this same vacation, Ed met Glenn Pollard and Ruth Oberg when he went to Oaxaca. At that time, the Greenwoods decided to eventually retire to Mexico. Ed Greenwood worked with the Canadian Embassy, in Washington D.C., from 1959 to 1962. He kept in touch with the Mexican botanists of the National University, and a close relationship was established with Helia Bravo. Helia had been invited by the Greenwoods to 205 stay at their apartment in Washington, during her stay studying the cactus collections at the United States National Herbarium. Helia always remembered him as a good friend and a very good cook. “He had a keen sense of humor and was a superb raconteur” (Dressler, 2002). Many of Ed’s pictures of cacti illustrate Helia and Hernando Sánchez-Mejorada’s work on Mexican cactii (1991). It is to be remembered that Greenwood, at that time, followed mainly his interests in the Cactaceae (Reddoch, 2002: 251). After completing the Washington assignment, Ed returned to Ottawa where he started the Native Orchid Location Survey of the Ottawa District, which he later extended to all of Canada. The Greenwoods continued to spend annual leave in Mexico, except during the couple of years when Ed was working in Great Britain. “While on vacation in Oaxaca, in the summer of 1963, Eric Hágsater came through on his way to Chiapas, meeting Ed and Mary at Pollard’s place, starting an enduring friendship and collaboration. In July 1964, Ed and Mary traveled with Ruth Oberg, the orchid and cacti lover living in Oaxaca, to Jalisco and Colima, where they met Eric Hágsater and collected together for a couple of weeks”. “In 1969, Ed Greenwood moved to London, England, where he was attached to the Canadian High Commission. On his weekends he spent time in the Kew Herbarium and in the libraries at Kew and the British Museum. During his stay in London he amassed an incredible amount of literature about Mexican orchids, mostly photocopies of original descriptions, books on the subject, pictures of type and critical specimens, and became very familiar with the historical collections housed in European herbaria” (Light et al., 2002: v). He also took the opportunity to travel to Vienna: “In early May I shall be in Vienna for a few days working in the Reichenbach Herbarium. Perhaps there may be some items there which I might look up for you…” (In a letter to R. Dressler, March 23, 1973). Ed Greenwood returned to Canada and retired in 1973. At the end of that year he departed with Mary to Mexico, where he stayed for the next 20 years. When the Greenwoods decided to set up their home in Oaxaca, the most productive period in Mexican orchidology began. Shortly after the Greenwoods moved to Mexico permanently, Eric Hágsater revived the old orchid society “Amigos de las Orquídeas”. They began publishing Orquídea (Mex.), where Ed became one of the editors. LANKESTERIANA 9(1—2), August 2009. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009.
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