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Fig. 7. Bust or Mapeten NUTTALL over the entrance of the apna Greenhouse 
t the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis 
“Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 
1819,” which was published the following year. 
At the end of 1822 he was called to Harvard College as curator of 
the botanical garden, there not being enough money to support a pro- 
fessorship. He soon became dissatisfied with this and took up the 
study of ornithology, producing a two-volume: manual of this science. 
About the beginning of 1833 Nuttall went to Philadelphia with the 
sea of plants made by Captain Wyeth during an overland jour- 
y to the Pacific Ocean. A second journey was to be made and 
Ni ntl resigned his position and spent the interval before the depar- 
ture of the expedition studying the Wyeth collection and his own 
Arkansas plants. 
Mr. Nuttall went in company with John K. Townsend, the two 
