468 Hope Street, 
Providence, P.,1. 
30 Oct. 1911 
Dear Chamberlain:- 
Your letter of the 28th is at hand, fhanks for 
the Grimraai.. Am glad to get it. Am glad too that you had a fine 
time on the Conn. trip. 
In regard to Thomas Drummond I think I can give you some 
references, thanks to Preston. InHooker’s journal of Botany 
(1834—1842) there are several articles about Drummond and his 
mosses, mainly his southern mosses. I have a copy of this work 
in 4 vols. She references are Vol. 1, p.50 & 183; Vol,2, pi 438; 
Tol. 3, p.302 & 433; V01. 4, p. 72. Some of these references 
are merely announcements of the appearance of his moss sets, etc. 
Drummond died in 1835, in Havana. 
I suspect that one of the best and most complete accounts 
of his life will be found in the Dictionary of national Biography, 
Yol. xvi;41. 1 think this reference is to the older edition in 
60 volumes. He was assistant naturalist on Sir John Franklin’s 
second land expedition (1825), and later collected in the southern 
states, particularly in Sexas. 
I understand there is probably a good account of him &n 
3£± Britten’s English and Irish naturalists. Also in Appleton’s 
Dictionary of American Biography. See also Goode Brown’s 
Beginnings of natural History in America; Brendel’s Historical 
Sketch of the Progress of Botany in North America in American 
Naturalist (in two different numbers) 
I do not have a copy of Britton’s local flora list. 
Hope the above will help you out, I think all of these 
works will be found in the library. 
Nothing special doing her© 
Connecticut is certainly badly hit with the chestnut disease, 
particularly in the southwestern part, the worst of it is that 
the authorities there are probably not intending to do anything 
about it, This will mean, in all probability, that it will be 
useless to do anything in Shod© Island aboxit it, even if B. I. 
had any money to do anything, which she has not I believe. 
Cordially, 
