WILLIAM BALDWIN III 



whose botanical zeal and knowledge has rarely 

 been excelled in America. 7 



" I was greatly surprised that the two officers 

 of the Academy whom I met seemed to know all 

 about my grandfather and his work as a botanist. 

 One of them asked me what was the probable 

 date of his visit to the Bermudas, when he had 

 been in conversation but a few moments, and 

 without hesitation selected part of a portfolio 

 which contained plants collected by my grand- 

 father in that locality." 



The next news Darlington had of his friend 

 was an official letter announcing his death on the 

 ist of September, 1819, at Franklin, on the banks 

 of the Missouri, in the home of his friend John 

 Lowry. 



Mrs. Baldwin was quite willing to let Darling- 

 ton have the Herbarium; her husband had writ- 

 ten to her five days before his death reminding 

 her of his promise, but Darlington's compassion 

 for the young widow and four little children 

 induced him to try to sell it, its obvious value 

 prohibiting his buying it himself at the price he 

 could afford. Zachary Collins, the botanist, 

 bought it and meant to place it in the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Sciences; but his rep- 

 resentatives sold it to the Rev. L. D. de Schwein- 

 itz, s who finally bequeathed it to the Philadel- 



3 Lewis David von Schweinitz, botanist, 1780-1834. 

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