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collectors, and introduced a very considerable number of new 
plants, 1 were themselves also travellers. John Gould Veitch 
was especially successful in his researches during the sixties 
in China, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia. Three sets 
of brothers were remarkable for their self-sacrificing energy. 
The two brothers Lobb collected for Veitch for over twenty 
years between 1840 and i860, and introduced many new 
things. Thomas Lobb confined his researches to the Old 
World, in India, Burmah, and the Philippines, and discovered 
many new orchids. William Lobb worked chiefly in South 
America and California, and sent home for the first time a 
plentiful supply of the cones and seeds of many of the conifers 
discovered by Douglas, besides finding new ones, particularly 
the gigantic Sequoia or Wellingtonia, and the Thuia called 
after him. He succeeded also in obtaining Lapageria rosea , 
Escallonia macrantha, Desfontainea spinosa, Berberis Dar- 
winii, and many other new plants now well known. Then 
there were the brothers Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839) and 
Richard. They both collected for Kew, chiefly in Australia, 
and held the post in turn of Superintendent of the botanical 
gardens at Sydney. Richard, the younger brother, met with 
a tragic death at the hands of the natives in the interior of 
Australia, while making a botanical expedition in the water¬ 
less Bush in 1835. The brothers Drummond were also adven¬ 
turous botanists at about the same time. Thomas Drum¬ 
mond’s field of work was North America, both the Arctic 
regions of Canada and in Texas, and he succumbed to illness 
on his travels in Cuba in 1835. His brother James explored 
in Western Australia, and died there in 1863, after being for 
many years Curator of the botanical gardens at Perth. 
Both Tropical and South Africa have also contributed an 
immense number of plants to stoves and green-houses. John 
Forbes, already referred to, was one of the earliest collectors, 
but little was done in the more tropical districts of darkest 
Africa before Sir John Kirk began to popularize in England 
new plants from those regions. He travelled with Living¬ 
stone between 1858 and 1863, when he went up the Shire 
River and discovered Lake Nyassa. When later he became 
1 Hovtus Veitchi , 1906. 
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