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down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Missouri, he 

 chafed under the restrictions, both of military rule and of 

 increasing weakness, and in his desire to make the most of 

 the few opportunities allowed him for collecting, he, doubt- 

 less, exhausted his little remaining strength. On the 15th 

 July the expedition reached Franklin, Mo., and here Dr. 

 Baldwin was compelled to leave it. He found a hospitable 

 home at the house of John J. Lowry, and there, September 

 1st, he died in his 41st year. He left a wife and four 

 children, the youngest then an infant. The friend who 

 knew him best said of him : " I have never j^et had the 

 happiness to be acquainted with any man of a more amiable 

 and upright character, more faithful in the discharge of his 

 duties, or more zealously devoted to science and the welfare 

 of his fellow-creatures." 



Dr. Baldwin's published scientific papers were but tAVO, 

 and these were offered for pul^lication just before starting on 

 his last journey : 



1. An account of two North American species of 

 Rottboellia, discovered on the sea-coast of Georgia. Avierican 

 Journal Science, 1st series I, 355, 1819. 



2. An account of two North American species of Cyperus 

 from Georgia, and of four species of Kyllingia, from the 

 Brazilian coast and from the Rio de la Plata. Trans. 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, new series II, 

 167. Read April 16, 1819. 



Fortunately his unpublished memoranda fell into the 

 hands of Dr. Torrey, and though in a crude and frag- 

 mentary state, they were used as their author Avould have 

 wished, as contributions for Dr. Torrey's monograph of the 

 Cyperaceiie, and for Dr. Gray's monograph of Rhyncliospora in 



