The more recent history of Ecuador would not be complete without a reference to the work of Mr Archer Harman (b. 1860), an American railway builder and financier whose connexion with the construction of the Guayaquil and Quito railway began in 1897. To his personal energy and enterprise, as manager of the railway company, was largely due the continued prosecution of this difficult engineering undertaking, in connexion with which he was responsible for a thorough reconstruction of Ecuador finance. He thus came to exercise a powerful influence on the internal progress of the country. See C.E. Akers, _History of South America, 1854-1904_ (London, 1904); H.W. Bates, _Central and South America_ (London, 1882); Pedro F. Cevallos, _Resumen de la historia del Ecuador_ (Guayaquil, 1886); Hans Meyer, _In den Hoch-Anden von Ecuador_ (Berlin 1907); A.H. Keane, _Stanford's Compendium_, vol. i. (1904); W. Reiss and A. Stübel, _Das Hochgebirge der Republik Ecuador_ (Berlin, 1892-1898); Edward Whymper, _Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator_ (London, 1892); T. Wolf, _Geografia y geologia del Ecuador_ (Leipzig, 1892); A. Stübel, _Skizzen aus Ecuador_ (Berlin, 1886); _Die Vulkanberge von Ecuador_ (Berlin, 1897); _Handbook of Ecuador_ (Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, 1892); _The World's Work_, vol. ii. pp. 1271-1277; _Engineering News_ (New York), vol. 52, pp. 117-119; _Bulletin of Internat. Bureau of American Republics_ for July 1900, p. 26, and for August 1908, pp. 280-282; _Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Council of Foreign Bondholders_, pp. 115, 117. FOOTNOTE: [1] See J. Siemiradzki, "Geologische Reisenotizen aus Ecuador," _Neues Jahrb. f. Min._, Beil. Band iv. (1886, pp. 195-227, pl. vii.); Th. Wolf, _Geografia y geologia del Ecuador, publicada por orden del Supremo Gobierno de la Republica_ (Leipzig, 1892); W. Reiss and A. Stübel, _Reisen in Sud-America. Das Hochgebirge der Republik Ecuador_ (Berlin, 1892-1902).