49 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
Fic. 3. THomas DruMMOND. 
From a crayon portrait at the Kew — TS by permission of the Kew cio 
authorities, through the kindness of Mr. J. R. Drummond, grandson of Thom 
seems to have prepared his collections for distribution, and we find him 
publishing a list of about two hundred and fifty species which .were 
collected around St. Louis by Drummond. 
uring the next spring and summer Drummond collected in the 
vicinity of New Orleans, and here he obtained even more plants than 
he did at St. Louis. He next went to Texas, which he was one of the 
first to explore botanically. Here he gathered a rich harvest, in spite 
of aseason of the most unfavorable weather. He then returned to New 
Orleans and went to Appalachicola in 1835 for the purpose of exploring 
the Florida peninsula. He soon left western Florida with the intention 
of reaching Key West by way of Havana, Cuba. Hooker learned that 
rane was taken sick while at Havana and died very suddenly in 
March, 183 
ip oes "axe the genus Drummondita to the two brothers. 
unfortunate error, this portrait of Thomas Drummond was in the 
last issue a the Montuty printed as a portrait of William Baldwin, and the 
portrait of William Baldwin was printed as the portrait of Meriwether Lewis. 
VOL, LXxIv. —4. 
