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and sportsman with the naturalist." Perhaps the two were not 

 altogether congenial; it seems they did not return together, 

 for it is stated in "Astoria" that when Mr. Hunt proceeded on 

 his way from the Arickara village, he left Mr. Nuttall there 

 waiting a party to go down the river, but Mr. Bradbury "had 

 departed some days previously." The return trip was full of 

 dangers and hardships. Mr. Bradbury was captured by the 

 Indians and saved his life by taking to pieces his watch and 

 distributing its parts among them. Mr. Nuttall "overcome by 

 fatigue and hunger in the wilderness, laid himself down to die, 

 but was found bv a friendly Indian, who took him in his canoe 

 down the Missouri to the first settlement of Avhite men. In 

 spite of these misadventures, he was able to bring with him 

 on his return, in the beginning of 1811, ample treasures of 

 seeds, plants, minerals, and other natural objects." (Sketch 

 of Thomas ISTuttall in Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895.) 

 During the next eight years he remained in Philadelphia, 

 making excursions during the summers, and studying his col- 

 lections. In 1818, he published his Genera of !N^orth American 

 Plants, in which is contained the descriptions of the plants 

 which I have mentioned. Mr. Xuttall thus collected with his 

 own hands the plants of which he so interestingly wrote. 



In the preface to Mr. Pursh's Plants of North America, 

 we find what became of Mr. Bradbury's collection. Frederick 

 Pursh, an Englishman, came to the United States to make 

 botanical collections, and for several years worked diligently in 

 collecting and in acquiring collections. In the preface of which 

 I have spoken he says, "In 1811, after an absence of nearly 

 twelve years, I returned to Europe with an ample stock of 

 material towards a Flora of North America." About the same 

 time I suppose Mr. Bradbury found his way to London with his 

 collection, for further on in the preface we read, "I am highly 

 indebted to Mr. William Roscoe, Esq., who very obligingly 

 communicated to me Mr, Bradbury's Plants collected in Upper 

 Louisiana." (Mr. Roscoe, we may presume, was an officer of 

 the Linna?an society, which sent out Mr. Bradbury.) "This val- 



