Lot 185
Drummond, Thomas
Musci Scotici: or, Dried Specimens of the Mosses that have been discovered in Scotland...
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[N.p., n.d. but c.1824-1825]. 2 volumes, 4to, containing title-page, index and 200 leaves of dried, mounted specimens, each with descriptive label, original boards with ties, neat ownership signature, some manuscript additions to labels (2)
Footnote
Rare. No copies traced in the National Library of Scotland or the British Library, one copy in the Horniman Library. Angus-born Thomas Drummond published his book of Scottish mosses prior to the appearance of his ‘Musci Britannici’ in around 1827. The son of the head gardener of the Fotheringham Estate, Thomas Drummond was a keen horticulturalist. Drummond's work took him across the Atlantic to join John Franklin's second Arctic expedition, before exploring the mosses of the Canadian Rockies. He travelled back across the Atlantic and became the first curator of the Belfast Botanic Gardens in 1828, before heading to the Southern States of America. He died in Cuba in March 1835, aged just 42.