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Mississippi in 1820, and collected plants in that region, then 
little known botanically. e was a son-in-law of Major Andrew 
Ellicott (1754-1820), the famous surveyor. 
Drummond, Thomas (1780-1835). Plant-collector in arctic America, 
Canada, and Texas, for the Glasgow Botanical garden; student of 
mosses. 
Eaton, Amos (1776-1842). Lecturer and writer; graduate of Williams 
College; the greatest popularizer of natural science that America 
has ever known. He was Torrey’s first botanical teacher; his 
“Manual of botany,” which went through eight editions (1817- 
40), was in its day the field reference book for every botanical 
student in the northeastern United States. He was the organizer 
of the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, at Troy, New York, in 
1824, and its senior professor from that time until his death. 
Eights, James (1798-1882). Physician and naturalist, of -Albany, 
Yew York; correspondent of Eaton and Torrey, and friend of 
Beck; as naturalist accompanied the Fanning expedition to the 
South Sea islands in 1829. 
Elliott, Stephen (1771-1830). One of the most distinguished citizens 
of South Carolina; representative, senator, and first president of 
the State Bank; author of a scholarly two-volume flora of South 
Carolina and Georgia, modestly entitled a “Sketch”; father of 
Stephen Elliott, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Georgia. 
Fries, Elias Magnus (1794-1878). Swedish botanist; for twenty 
years (1814-34) a member of the faculty at Lund, and for twenty- 
five years (1834-59) professor at Upsala. His was the most 
commanding figure in the early history of mycological taxonomy. 
Frueauff, Eugene Alexander (1806-1879). Moravian clergyman and 
educator; nephew of Schweinitz (son of his sister Elizabeth and 
her husband Rev. John Frederick Frueauff). He was his uncle’s 
assistant at Bethlehem, accompanied him on his western journey to 
Hope, Indiana, in May, June, and July, 1831, and succeeded him 
as administrator of the,temporal affairs of the Moravian church in 
America; he was for twenty years principal of Linden Hall, a 
Moravian school at Lititz, Pennsylvania. Through his association 
with his uncle he became interested in botany; after his death his 
herbarium was presented by his widow to the Moravian college 
at Bethlehem. (For these data I am indebted to his son, Professor 
Herman T. Frueauff, of the Frances Steitler School, Allentown, 
Pennsylvania.) 
