28 NUTTALL. 
lived on the estate of Nutgrove, St. Helen’s, Lan- 
cashire, bequeathed to him on condition that he 
should there reside, and there he died 
Nuttall, of all the early American naturalists, 
was the one who had travelled the most exten- 
sively on this continent; indeed the only one 
villages with Manuel Lisa’s fur trading boats to 
St. Louis in 1811, and was again in St. Louis in 
1834 for the last time, when on his way to the 
Pacific coast. 
eo. Engleman considers him entitled to be 
called the Father of Western American Botany, 
and at his suggestion a plain stone monument 
has been erected in the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, inscribed 
TO THE MEMORY OF 
THOMAS NUTTALL, 
BORN IN ENGLAND, 1786. 
HONOR TO THE ZEALOUS 
AND SUCCESSFUL NATURALIST, 
THE FATHER OF WESTERN AMERICAN 
BOTANY, 
THE WORTHY COMPEER OF BARTON, 
MICHAUX, HOOKER, TORREY -AND GRAY. 
DIED SEPT, 1859, AGED 73 YEARS. 
