THOMAS NUTTALL.; EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS, 1748-1846. Volume XIII. Nuttall's Travels Into the Arkansas Territory, 1819. Edited with notes. Introduction. Index. By Reuben Gold Thwaites. Cloth. Pp. 366. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company.

No one is more closely associated with American botany than is Thomas Nuttall, who was born in Settle, West Riding, Yorkshire, in 1786. Not much is known concerning his family. His parents, it is believed, were in humble circumstances. He was apprenticed to a printer, and must have been proficient, for he tells that some of his own publications were set up with his own hands. View Full Article in Timesmachine »