fall 2016 25 1935 to February 1951, but it seems that David Fairchild did not exchange any correspondence with Brothers Alain and Marie-Victorin. The herbarium of the La Salle Brothers is currently located at the Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática in Havana. This research center houses the historical herbaria of the country. Brother Marie-Victorin also made trips to the Dominican Republic (in January 1938), Haiti (in December 1937–January 1938, and Spring 1942), Florida (at least two trips in January 1933 and in 1937), Jamaica and Trinidad (both in April 1941), and Puerto Rico (in May 1942). We have found an unpublished travelogue from Marie-Victorin’s first visit to Hispaniola (December 1937–January 1938), when he travelled to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In Florida and these islands, he took hundreds of photos that were never published. In addition, the archives have a condolence letter sent by Fairchild to Jules Brunel (1905– 1986), Acting Director of the Botany Institute of the University of Montreal after the sudden death of Brother Marie-Victorin in a tragic car accident in Canada. Starting in 2015, the authors of this article began developing several research projects focusing on the archives of Marie-Victorin located at the University of Montreal. Led by one of us (Santiago-Valentín), we investigated the trip that Brother Marie-Victorin made to Puerto Rico, and the results of this research have recently been published in the Revista del Jardín Botánico Nacional, Cuba. With the support of the University of Montreal, the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center from Florida International University (FIU), and the College of Arts and Sciences of FIU, two of us (Francisco-Ortega and André) have made our first research trips to Montreal to study part of this material. Our research also involves undergraduate students from FIU. Acknowledgments Thank you to Janet Mosely, Nancy Korber and Marianne Swan for their support and help with the documents in Fairchild’s archives and library. We are also grateful to Liesl Picard for conducting preliminary research at the archives of the University of Montreal. Monique Voyer and Diane Baillargeon (Division de la gestion de documents et des archives, Université de Montréal) provided technical assistance during our archival research. José M. Dorado and Brother Agustín Enciso (one of the La Salle Brothers who had to leave Cuba in 1961) provided invaluable help with references and details pertinent to the history of La Salle Brothers in Cuba. Page from the pocket diary of Dr. David Fairchild for his 1939 trip to Cuba; it shows the address of Brother Marie-Victorin. Courtesy of the Archives and Library of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Portrait of Brother Alain as published by J.A. Conde (Historia de la Botánica en Cuba. 1958) Read more about the La Salle Brothers and Dr. David Fairchild at www.fairchildgarden.org/ Botanists-in-Cuba
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