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“Disharmony between Asiatic Flower-Birds and American Bird-Flowers”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George F. Carter
George F. Carter*
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The Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Md
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L. van der Pijl published an article with the above title in the Annates du Jardin Botanitjue de Buitenzorg (Vol. 68, Part 1, 1937, pp. 17-26, 6 plates). He has written to me to call my attention to it because of the striking way in which it corroborates O. F. Cook's idea that some useful American plants, among them the Hibiscus, were carried to Asia in pre-Columbian times. I have recently reviewed some of Cook's ideas (Carter 1950, 1953) on this subject and found them to have more merit than it has been customary to allow them. It is curious that Pijl seems not to have known of Cook's work, nor did I know of Pijl's. Yet these pieces of work are distintcly complementary and, of course, must be considered in relation to recent work by Ekholm, Heine-Geldern, Heyerdahl, Sauer, Burkhill, and others.

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , October 1954 , pp. 176 - 177
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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