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Fig. o. Thomas Drujimo.nd.s-i 



From a crayon portrait at the Kew Gardens ; by permission of the Kew Garden 

 authorities, through the Isindness of Mr. J. R. Drummond, grandson of Thomas. 



seems to have prepared his collections for distribution, and we find him 

 publishing a list of about two hundred and fifty species which were 

 collected around St. Louis by Drummond. 



During the next spring and summer Drummond collected in the 

 vicinity of New Orleans, and here he obtained even more plants than 

 he did at St. Louis. He next went to Texas, which he was one of the 

 first to explore botanically. Here he gathered a rich harvest, in spite 

 of a season of the most unfavorable weather. He then returned to New 

 Orleans and went to Appalachicola in 1835 for the purpose of exploring 

 the Florida peninsula. He soon left western Florida with the intention 

 of reaching Key West by way of Havana, Cuba. Hooker learned that 

 Drummond was taken sick while at Havana and died very suddenly in 

 March, 1835. 



Harvey dedicated the genus Drummondita to the two brothers. 



®* By an unfortunate error, this portrait of Thomas Drummond was in the 

 last issue of the Monthly printed as a portrait of William Baldwin, and the 

 portrait of William Baldwin was printed as the portrait of Meriwether Lewis. 



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