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Fig. 8. Geamte Obelisk in tuf. Missouri Botanicai, Garden near the Museum — 



in honor of Thomas Nuttall. 



being sent by the American Philosophical Society. The two arrived 

 at St. Louis on March 24, 1834, on the steamboat Boston, from Pitts- 

 burg. They started from St. Louis, going on foot to the point of 

 rendezvous at Boonville, Mo., where they joined the Wyeth party. 

 The brief period while they went on foot from St. Louis to Boonville 

 is the one which concerns us at present. Unfortunately the season 

 was so early that JSTuttall found but few plants in bloom. 



The expedition ascended the Missouri Eiver to the headwaters of 

 the Columbia, and then followed that to its mouth. When winter 

 came on with our travelers on the Pacific coast they took passage for 

 the Sandwich Islands, where they arrived January 5, 1835. Here 



