48 TEE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



A BIOGEAPHICAL HISTOEY OF BOTANY AT ST. LOUIS, 



MISSOUEI. II. 



By Dr. PERLEY SPAULDING 



LABORATORY OF FOREST PATHOLOGY, BUREAU OF PLAKT INDUSTRY, 

 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



THOMAS DEUMMOND^ was born about 1780. He is known to 

 have been a native of Scotland, but the exact place of his birth is 

 unknown, as is also his early training and education. He was a brother 

 of James Drummond, the Australian botanical explorer, and is known to 

 have succeeded George Don in the nursery at Forfar. In 1825-6-7 he 

 accompanied the Second Overland Arctic Expedition, led by Sir John 

 Franklin, as assistant to Dr. Eichardson, who was the naturalist of the 

 expedition. In Canada Drummond explored very extensively, even into 

 the Eocky Mountains and on the Mackenzie Eiver where the main part 

 of the expedition did most of its work. Upon the completion of the 

 Journey he returned to England, and from 1828 to 1829 he was curator 

 of the Belfast Botanical Garden. Soon after his return to England he 

 published a work upon the American mosses, which was chiefly the re- 

 sult of his collections made in Canada. He again sailed for New York 

 under the patronage of Drs. Hooker and Graham, for the purpose of 

 exploring the southern and western United States. Beginning his tour 

 at New York City in the spring of 1831, he went to Philadelphia, 

 visited Bartram's garden, thence to Baltimore, Washington, and to 

 Wheeling on foot. At the last-named place he embarked for St. Louis, 

 descending the Ohio Eiver and coming up the Mississippi by boat. It 

 was his original intention to Join some fur-trading expedition to the far 

 western country, but he arrived in St. Louis too late for this. He ac- 

 cordingly remained in St. Louis and collected in the vicinity until the 

 next winter. He lost considerable time by sickness, but in January he 

 sent a collection of several hundred species of phanerogams and a con- 

 siderable collection of mosses and hepatics to Hooker at Kew. Hooker 



° Date of birth and photograph supplied by Mr. J. R. Drummond, grandson 

 of Thomas. 



Hooker, Wm. J., Companion to the Jour, of Bot., 1: 21-26, 39-49, 95-101, 

 170-177, 1835; 2: 60-64, 1836. Journal of Botany, 1: 50-60, 183-202, 1834. 

 Botanical Miscellany, 1 : 178, 1849. 



Lasfegue, A., "Mus6e Bot. de M. Benj. Delessert," 196-198, 1845. 



Sargent, C. S., " Silva of North America," 2 : 25, 1891. 



