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and the Rocky Mountain West." The center is housed in Unit 2 of Sid
Richardson Hall, adjacent to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and
Museum. Its public hours are g A.M. to 5 P.M., Monday through Satur-
day. For more information, call the Center for American History,
512/495-4515.
Painted plants exotic and familiar are blooming in the Nettie Lee
Benson Latin American Collection as part of the library's Plants of
the New World exhibit, which opened last December. From pre-
Columbian images of maize to German scientist Alexander von Hum-
boldt's botanical drawings, the exhibit documents the flora of Latin
America, Mexico, and the United States with books, manuscripts, maps,
and paintings from the Benson Collection. It also features watercolors
of Texas and Colombian wildflowers by Ana de Gamboa of Popazan,
Colombia. Highlights include a map of Tetlistaca from Relaciones Geo-
graficas, early hand-painted maps in the collection; illustrations from
Nieremberg's 1635 book, Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae; and
details from Nova Plantarum, Animalium, et Mineralium Mexicanorum
Historia, a 1651 book by Spanish explorer and physician Francisco Her-
nandez. The exhibit is a broad overview of New World plants, focusing
on their indigenous record, medicinal properties, and cataloging by
"Old World" expedition parties. Plants of the New World is on display
through June 30, 1992, at the Benson Latin American Collection, lo-
cated in Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 1, adjacent to the LBJ Library and
Museum.
Among a group of forty-two Granaderos and Damas de Galvez from
Texas and Florida who visited Spain in June 1991 were TSHA member
Robert H. Thonhoff and his wife, Victoria. Invited for an audience and
an itinerary by Spain's King Juan Carlos I, they were privileged with a
special reception in Madrid by the king's parents, S.A.R. Don Juan de
Borb6n, Conde de Barcelona, and the Condessa de Barcelona. (King
Juan Carlos was unable to hold the audience himself due to another
engagement.)
While at the colorful reception, Bob had the high honor of present-
ing to King Juan Carlos, through his father, a branding iron, a special
leather-covered copy of TSHA member Jack Jackson's Los Mestefios:
Spanish Ranching in Texas, 1721 -1 82 , and an enlargement of a map on
Spanish Ranchos of the San Antonio River Valley, 1780, by Thonhoff
and Jackson. The branding iron was fitted with a replica of the royal
brand that was used in Texas during the reign of Carlos III, direct an-
cestor to Juan Carlos. The brand was researched by TSHA Fellow Jack514
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