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Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Perito Moreno and Patagonia
Exhibition with Patagonian plants
Principal Sponsors: Argentine Embassy London, Magic Penny Trust.
Editors: Germán Sopeña and Robin Willson
Bruce´s 7 words home: Courtesy
Lago Traful 100 years ago.
Also displayed are documents illustrating Moreno´s collaborations with the Natural History Museum in London and in connection with his work in setting up the Argentine National Parks service one of the first countries in the world to have such an organization.
Alstroemeria patagonica
The assitance of the Argentine Embassy in London in transporting the photographs to Edinburgh is much appreciated.
It is hoped that the exhibition will be transferred to London in April. It is perhaps fitting, however, that the exhibition should first be shown in Edinburgh, for two reasons.
First, Moreno was a great admirer of David Livingstone, the famous Scottish explorer. He refers on the first page of his first book how from an early age he was inspired by "this true apostle who so well combined the ideas of Christ with science". Later in the same book he describes how, when looking out over a beautiful lake in southern Patagonia he understands how Livingstone must have felt looking out over Tanganika. (Since that day the lake has been called Lago Argentino, the same lake into which what is known today as the Perito Moreno glacier, slowly slides)
Perito Moreno Glacier
(Copyright: Alberto Patrián )
Click photo to enlarge.
Finally, for the Magic Penny Trust who, through Magic Penny Patagonia have provided the driving force behind the exhibition, the Edinburgh venue and Bruce´s setting up of a magnetic observatory on South Orkney, brings back happy memories. The Trust might not have taken off in the way it has, if it had not been for the wonderful reception Magic Pennies with their magnetic escapades received at their initial presentation at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in 1993!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Unfortunately for financial reasons a large number of Moreno and other Patagonian photographs could not be shown as was originally hoped. We hope that this may be possible on another occasion and sincerely thank Leopold Montes and Gabriel Oliva (Instituto Nacional de Technologia Agropecuaria and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral) and Alberto Patrian, for making their beautiful floral, and other Patagonian photographs available to us.
Finally we would like to thank the Argentine Foreign office and Embassy in London for all their efforts in securing funds for the transport of the photographs. We know it was not easy in these difficult economic times.
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