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and may manifest a disposition too irritable; but when I reflect 

 upon the period of life to which I have attained, the delicate state 

 of health to which I am reduced, without the means of doing any- 

 thing efficient (I fear) to restore it, the unfinished labors of eight 

 years, which would be almost' entirely lost in case of my decease ; 

 and, above all, the rising family which look to me for support, lean 

 not but feel anxious." * * * On the 15th of July the expe- 

 dition reached Franklin, Mo., and here Dr. B. was compelled to 

 leave it. He found a hospitable home at the house of John J. 

 Lowry, and there, September 1st, he died, in his 41st year. He 

 left a wife and four children, the youngest then an infant. The 

 friend who knew him best, says of him : " I have never yet had 

 the happiness to be acquainted with any man of a more amiable 

 and upright character, more faithful in the discharge of his duties, 

 or more zealously devoted to the interests of science and the wel- 

 fare of his fellow creatures." 



Dr. Baldwin's published scientific, papers were but two, and 

 these were offered for publication just before starting on his last 

 journey. They are : 



1. An account of two North American species of Bottbcellia, 

 discovered on the seacoast of Georgia. Am. Jour. Sei. 1st series. 

 L,855. 1819. 



2. An account of two North American species of Cyperus, 

 from Georgia, and of four species of Kyllingia, from the Brazilian 

 coast and from the Rio de la Plata. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 

 New series, II, 167. Bead Apr. 16, 1819. 



Fortunately his unpublished memoranda fell into the hands 

 of Dr. Torrey, and though in a crude and fragmentary state, they 

 were used as their author would have wished, as contributions for 

 Dr. Torrey's Monograph of the Oyperacece, and for Dr. Gray's 

 Monograph of Rhynchospora in Annals of N. Y. Lyceum of Nat. 

 .Hist. Vol, III. His herbarium was purchased by his friend Col- 

 lins, from whom it went to Schweinitz, who bequeathed it to the 

 Phil. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



In preparing this sketch free use has been made of the Memoir 

 prefixed by Dr. Darlington to the "Reliquiai Baldwinice," and 

 of the valuable correspondence there found. Other material con- 

 sulted has been a series of letters from Baldwin to Zaccheus Col- 

 lins, twenty- one in number, covering the last two years of Bald- 

 win's life, contained in the "Collins Correspondence'' in the 

 library of the Philadelphia Academy, and a copy in Collins' hand 

 of the botanical notes made by Baldwin on his last sad journey. 

 See, also, Vol. I. of James' Historv of Major Long's Expedition, 

 Philadelphia, 1823. J. H. Redfield. 



