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Long was a hurried one, although it was made overland from St. Louis 
to Council Bluffs and but few plants were collected near St. Louis. 
James remained with the expedition until its close. His efficient labors 
are proved by the subsequent publications founded upon his observations 
and collections. The present Pikes Peak was first named James’s Peak, 
by Major Long, but for some unexplained reason the earlier name has 
not remained in use. 
The next two years after the return of the expedition were spent in 
compiling his results, which were published in 1825, and were of much 
historical and scientific value. During the next six or seven years he 
served as a surgeon in the regular army at extreme frontier posts, and 
here he studied the Indian languages and translated the New Testa- 
ment into the Ojibwe tongue. He also published a biography of John 
Tanner, a man who was captured by the Indians while a child, and was 
brought up by them. When the medical department of the army was 
reorganized he resigned and returned to Albany, where he was associate 
editor of a temperance periodical. Upon leaving this he went west and 
settled near Burlington, Iowa, where he spent the last days of his life 
in agricultural pursuits. On October 25, 1861, he was run over by a 
wagon and injured so seriously that he died three days later. 
The genus Jamesia, of the Saxifrage family, was named in his honor 
by Torrey and Gray. 
The results of the exploring expeditions seem to have directed at- 
tention to the Missouri country, so that a number of men of ability 
came to that section and made botanical explorations of greater or less 
extent. Before the Long expedition had finished its work an amateur 
botanist, Dr. Lewis C. Beck, was ae about St. Louis. 
. Lewis Caleb Beck* was born in Schenectady, New York, 
October 4, 1798. In 1817 - sopduntes at Union College; he Sion 
studied medicine and began to practise at Schenectady in 1818. He 
moved to St. Louis in 1820 and lived here until 1822. During this 
time he collected quite extensively and later published a list of his col- 
lections. His introductory note is self-explanatory and is as follows: 
During my residence in Missouri, in the years 1820, 1821 and 1822, a por- 
tion of my time was occupied in the witegeecere of the vegetable productions 
of that and the adjoining state. Upon my return I was so fortunate as to 
receive, gece the collections which I had m sit : 
he present season (1826), however, I have not ae leisure to examine 
them with the necessary attention, and to revise my n upon the recent 
plants. This work I have now commenced, and submit : gee the first part, 
5 Appleton’s “ Cyclopedia of American Biography,” 1: 213, 1887. 
Anonymous, Amer. Jour, Sci. and Arts, 2d series, 16: 149, 1853. 
March, Dr. Alden, Gross’s “ Amer. Med. Biography,” 679-696, 1861. 
Beck, L. C., Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 10: 257-264, 1826; 11: 167-182, 
1827; 14: 112-121, 1828. 
