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Fig. 7. Bust of Thomas Nuttaix, over the entrance of the Liunjeau Greenhouse 

 at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 



'^' Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 

 1819," which was published the following year. 



At the end of 1822 he was called to Harvard College as curator of 

 the botanical garden, there not being enough money to support a pro- 

 fessorship. He soon became dissatisfied with this and took up the 

 study of ornithology, producing a two-volume manual of this science. 

 About the beginning of 1833 Nuttall went to Philadelphia with the 

 collection of plants made by Captain Wyeth during an overland jour- 

 ney to the Pacific Ocean. A second journey was to be made and 

 Nuttall resigned his position and spent the interval before the depar- 

 ture of the expedition studying the Wyeth collection and his own 

 Arkansas plants. 



Mr, Nuttall went in company with John K. Townsend, the two 



