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or: 
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. Long, as botanist and geologist, taking the place of 
Dr. Baldwin, who accompanied this expedition on the previous season 
as labors 
and his life. 
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son, Sec’ty. of the Navy, Capt. Leconte, and by Dr. John Torrey, whose _ 
subsequent labors as the descriptive botanist of Dr. James’ col 1s, 
has intimately associated his name with this pioneer Expedition. The 
Dr. Jam 
easily imagine the enthusiastic ardor with which the young naturalist, 
treading for the first time these alpine heights, gathered up its floral 
ed, by modern geographers. Am 
marks, of this a ing other peak fully as aren te, might have 
ition, the attention of Dr. James was 
for six or seven years 
n, serving in that 
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ublished, in 1833. : He was ae 
the author of a life of John Tanner, a strange frontier ¢ aracter, who 
was soles’ 6 a child on his home on the Ohio River by Indians, 
among whom he was brought up, developing in his future eventful his- 
1820, Dr. James was attached to the Exploring Ex- — a 
ames was recommended to this situation, by Hon. Smith Thomp- 
