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collectors, and introduced a very considerable number of new 

 plants/ were themselves also travellers. John Gould Veitch 

 was especially successful in his researches during the sixties 

 in China, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia. Three sets 

 of brothers were remarkable for their self-sacrificing energy. 

 The two brothers Lobb collected for Veitch for over twenty 

 years between 1840 and i860, and introduced many new 

 things. Thomas Lobb confined his researches to the Old 

 World, in India, Burmah, and the Philippines, and discovered 

 many new orchids. William Lobb worked chiefly in South 

 America and California, and sent home for the first time a 

 plentiful supply of the cones and seeds of many of the conifers 

 discovered by Douglas, besides finding new ones, particularly 

 the gigantic Sequoia or Wellingtonia, and the Thuia called 

 after him. He succeeded also in obtaining Lapageria rosea, 

 Escallonia macrantha, Desfontainea spinosa, Berberis Dar- 

 winii, and many other new plants now well known. Then 

 there were the brothers Cunningham, Allan (i 791-1839) and 

 Richard. They both collected for Kew, chiefly in Australia, 

 and held the post in turn of Superintendent of the botanical 

 gardens at Sydney. Richard, the younger brother, met with 

 a tragic death at the hands of the natives in the interior of 

 Australia, while making a botanical expedition in the water- 

 less Bush in 1835. The brothers Drummond were also adven- 

 turous botanists at about the same time. Thomas Drum- 

 mond's field of work was North America, both the Arctic 

 regions of Canada and in Texas, and he succumbed to illness 

 on his travels in Cuba in 1835. His brother James explored 

 in Western Australia, and died there in 1863, after being for 

 many years Curator of the botanical gardens at Perth. 



Both Tropical and South Africa have also contributed an 

 immense number of plants to stoves and green-houses. John 

 Forbes, already referred to, was one of the earliest collectors, 

 but little was done in the more tropical districts of darkest 

 Africa before Sir John Kirk began to popularize in England 

 new plants from those regions. He travelled with Living- 

 stone between 1858 and 1863, when he went up the Shir^ 

 River and discovered Lake Nyassa. When later he became 

 ^ Hortus Veitchiy 1906. 



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