234 tXPLUKl-NG NAIUKALISTS. 



nioh food and subsistence, and especially such points in its Natural His- 

 tory as could be then made out. But little more M'as then known of 

 the latter, than was to be derived from the scanty materials furnished by 

 Long's Expedition ; for Messrs. Nuttall and others visited it a few years 

 after, bringing home the fullest account of its plants. 



Before leaving the Eastern States, his friends felt exceedingly anxious 

 concerning the effect of this long journey upon him, and of the expo- 

 sure he might suffer from encamping out, when far from any human hab- 

 itation at night. The issue, in its disastrous consequences, justified their 

 fears in the fullest extent. He had proceeded up the Arkansas into the 

 country of the Osages, when, being exposed in an inclement spell of 

 weather, the consuming fires of disease within were suddenly lighted 

 up; that form of consumption, which had remained so long quiescent, 

 was suddenly excited into great activity and violence, insomuch that he 

 had barely strength left to reach Fort Gibson. Here, aft£r receiving the 

 attention which the officers on our distant posts are so ready to afford a 

 stranger in distress, he lingered a short time, to die far away from his 

 friends and his fatherland. His last resting place is near the rushing 

 waters of the Arkansas. 



His collections and other effects being brouglit to Baltimore, were 

 lor the most part transmitted to Europe. His traveling furniture, col- 

 lecting boxes, Stc, were sold by order of the orphan's court, and the 

 writer of this article has rescued a vasculum, which was to have been 

 appropriated to a baser purpose, (he had two or three in constant u.se), 

 and still retains it as a highly piized souvenir of a most skilled botanist, 

 and a man eminent in science. 



We have understood that the intrigues of a rival candidate for the 

 curatorship of the Imperial Garden at Berlin defeated him from an ap- 

 pointment, which would have gained additional lustre from such an oc- 

 cupant, and induced his friends to make up this expedition to this coun- 

 try, with which, in some degree, to repay him for the discomfiture. 

 Few at home, from the state of his health, expected him to survive the 

 voyage, and if all that is said of them be true, whilst knowing this, they 

 vvere heartless enough to expedite him on his travels. Being the fa- 

 vorite candidate of the High or court party, the fund to be made up 

 Avas intended to be ample; but such friends are remarkably oblivious 

 when not reminded frequently of their obligations ; be this, however as 

 it may, some drafts, which v*'ere honored in this country, we believe 

 remain to this dav unsettled. F. 



