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Orleans, and in 1837 H. B. Croom lost his life by shipwreck on 
the coast of North Carolina. 
H. B. Croom was born in North Carolina, 1799; his catalogue 
of plants of Newbern, N. C., was, after his death, published by 
Torrey. 
Joseph Frank came to America, 1835, and collected for a 
botanical society in Germany (the Unio Itineraria). He traveled 
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri and Louisiana. 
Carl Beyrich, another German, was sent by the Prussian gov- 
ernment. He collected, 1833, in North and South Carolina and 
Georgia 1300 species in one season. The next year he went with 
a military expedition (probably that of Col. Dodge) from St 
Louis to the Indian Territory, to leave it no more. 
Thomas Drummond, brother of the well known Australian 
traveler, James Drummond, took part in Franklin's second expe- 
dition as an assistant of Dr. Richardson, in 1825. At Cumberland 
House he left the party to explore the Rocky mountains of the 
British Territory. In 1831 he collected in the Alleghanies, and 
then in the vicinity of St. Louis and New Orleans, where he 
embarked for Texas. He explored the country around Austin, 
Brazoria and Galveston, went to Apalachicola, in Florida, and 
started from there in February, 1833, for Havana, where he died 
in the month of March. 
Already before Drummond, in 1827-1830 Texas was, in its more 
western parts, explored by Jean Louis Berlandier, from Geneva. 
He also, though later in 1851, died far from home in Matamoras, 
on the Rio Grande. : 
Maximilian, prince of Wied, traveled in the Western Territo- 
ries in the years 1832-1834, and brought back to Germany a small ` 
on of about two hundred species, which were published 
Nees v. Esenbeck, professor of botany in Breslau. There 
ZT was nothing new except the genus Sarcobatus, proposed by Nees 
and afterwards described again by Torrey wader the name cal 
Fremontia. 
Many American botanists were at work in this period, collect- 
ing the plants about their homes or exploring the vegetation of 
larger districts. The most prominent ought to be named here : 
oe Massachusetts, Bigelow, Tuckerman, Uakes,’Dewey ; in Con- 
| _Recticut, Barratt; in New York, Sartwell, Carey, Beck, Bailey; 
ee ei a Durand and Darlington; in North bs ‘ 
