Directors of Companhia Paulista at the countryside, probably at the Rio Claro plant nursery, 1915. From the left to the right: Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, creator of the Forestry Service of Companhia Paulista; Francisco de Monlevade, General Inspector; Alfredo Williams, Chief of Locomotion. Picture originally available in the Special Bulletin of ABEF - Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Ferroviária (Brazilian Association for Railroad Engineering), In Memoriam of Eng^o Francisco Paes Leme de Monlevade, 1945.

Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (1881-1941). He was born in São Paulo in 1881. He was the director of the Plant Nursery of Companhia Paulista. In 1904 he introduced the eucaliptus tree from Austrália in Brazil, carrying out many experiences with such tree at the Jundiaí and Rio Claro plant nurseries regarding its use for sleepers, telegraphical posts and as fuel for steam locomotives. He wrote many publications about the subject, like O Eucalipto and O Manual do Plantador de Eucalipto ("The Manual of the Eucaliptus Planter"). He died in São Paulo in 1941.