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sures of his adopted coanlry ; and few have done more for 

 the botany of Western America than Thomas Drummond. 



About this time our Western borders were visited by 

 another foreign naturalist, Prince Maximilian de Neuweid, 

 who having spent some time in the Eastern States and in 

 Pittsburgh, determined to visit the upper Missouri, and to 

 extend his tour to the Rocky Mountains. The hostility of 

 the Indian tribes prevented him from reaiizing liis original 

 plan to the full extent; nevertheless, he ascended some dis- 

 tance beyond the confines of civilization, and obtained a very 

 fine collection of plants and animals ; and what is also a 

 matter of much interest considering how fiist the native sons 

 of our forests are being exterminated, he made a series ol 

 drawings of some of the most distinguished chiefs and war- 

 riors belonging to about twenty different tribes, who are as 

 yet but imperfectly known to the whites. 



Next in chronological order, we come to make mention of 

 Mr Charles Beyrich, a Prussian gentleman of science, who, 

 under the auspices of that government, visited America 

 about four years since, passing the greater portion of that 

 time in the diligent exploration of its botanical treasures. 

 He spent the summer of 1833 chiefly in the Carolinas and 

 Georgia, where, and in some of the adjoining States, he 

 amassed a collection of thirteen hundred species in one 

 season. Visiting the city of W^ashington during the suc- 

 ceeding winter, and learning that a military expedition 

 would be sent the ensuing spring, into the Indian territory 

 west of the Mississippi, he applied for, and readily obtained 

 permission from Secretary Cass to accompany it. He joined 

 the detachment at St Louis in the sprin"-, proceeded with it 

 to the different frontier posts, and was witli the U. S. Dr^' 

 goons in their engagements with the Pawnees and Cuman- 

 ches. On the return from this journey, richly laden wi^" 

 the fruits of extensive and diligent observation and with col- 

 lections from a new and unknown region, he was seized with 

 cholera, and died at Fort Gibson, in September, 1834. Mr 

 Beyrich is represented by thoie who knew him to have been an 



