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Fic. 8. GRANITE ORELISK IN THE MIssouRI BOTANICAL GARDEN NEAR THE MuspumM— 
in honor of Thomas Nuttall. 
being sent by the American Philosophical Society. The two arrived 
at St. Louis on March 24, 1834, on the steamboat Boston, from Pitts- 
burg. They started from St. Louis, going on foot to the point of 
rendezvous at Boonville, Mo., where they joined the Wyeth party. 
The brief period while they went on foot from St. Louis to Boonville 
is the one which concerns us at present. Unfortunately the season 
was so early that Nuttall found but few plants in bloom. 
he expedition ascended the Missouri River to the headwaters of 
the Columbia, and then followed that to its mouth. When winter 
came on with our travelers on the Pacific coast they took passage for 
the Sandwich Islands, where they arrived January 5, 1835. Here 
