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- 1793 - 1835 (Creation)
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monograph; written by R.K. Greville
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Biographical history
Scottish botanist and plant collector, brother of James Drummond. Took over George Don's nursery after his death.
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Robert Kaye Greville was an English botanist, mycologist and bryologist. He was also an excellent illustrator.
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Catalogue of Thomas Drummond’s first parcel from St. Louis, the Alleganies and New Orleans in 1832 (hand written by R.K. Greville)
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Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
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Permission required from RBGE
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 16
Drummond, Thomas (d.1835)
by Benjamin Daydon Jackson
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Drummond,_Thomas_%28d.1835%29_%28DNB00%29