BOTANY AT ST. LOUIS 50 
Fic. 4. Prince MAXIMILIAN: from his ‘ Reise nach Brasilien.” 
Very appropriately Drummondia, a genus of American mosses, was 
named in Thomas’s memory by his patron, Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
Numerous species of our phanerogams are also named after this most 
industrious and successful collector. 
Even persons of royal lineage were numbered among the tad 
naturalists who came to America for the purpose of exploring unknow. 
sections for new plants and animals, and to make scientific ie adions 
While (Princ Alexander von Humboldt attained eminence for his 
travels and scientific worth, he was not the only royal person who did so, 
although we generally hear no other mentioned. Alexander Philip 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied neu-Wied, came to the New World on two 
different occasions. On the first tour he visited Brazil, and on the 
second he. visited the United States and especially the northwestern or 
Missouri country. 
Prince Maximilian'® was born on September 23, 1782, in Wied 
” Thwaites, R. G., “ Early Western Travels,” Vols. eae 23 and 24, 
Maximilian, Prince, “ Reise nach Brasilien,” 182 
Sargent, C. S., “Silva of North America,” 9: ete 1896. 
