Dr. Sarah Finch carefully extracted the delicate tissue sample from the ghost orchid variant she had just located in the high canopy of the Chocó forest. This moment was the culmination of a quest that had begun five years prior, when she first stumbled across a faded drawing of the flower in the margins of a nineteenth-century journal in Madrid. That discovery in the archives had immediately prompted her to secure funding from the Botanical Society, a grueling process that took nearly two years of rejected proposals. But as she packaged the sample, her mind flashed forward to the upcoming presentation at the Geneva Symposium, where she would finally vindicate her theory of high-altitude orchid evolution. Sitting on the forest floor, she remembered her first expedition to Ecuador three years ago, which had ended in near-disaster when a sudden mudslide swept away all their collection gear, forcing a hasty retreat. Now, looking at the glowing white petals in the twilight, Finch knew the years of setbacks were finally behind her.
Based on the passage, what is the correct chronological order of the following events in Finch's quest, from earliest to latest?
- 1Finch discovers a sketch of the orchid in a Spanish archive.
- 2Finch obtains financial backing from the Botanical Society.
- 3Finch's collection equipment is lost in a landslide.
- 4Finch gathers a biological sample of the orchid in the forest.