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Dombey sought at once to replace this loss, and soon had in readiness a second shipment, but the authorities of Callao confiscated over 300 original designs of rare plants on the pretext that works of native artists were not permitted to be exported to foreign countries. These designs were given to
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tree. In 1780 he sent a portion of his collection home, but the vessel containing them was captured by the British, and the specimens sent to the British Museum, where they are still retained, notwithstanding the subsequent claims by the French government.
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broke out, and at once Dombey offered his services and was appointed physician-in-chief of the city, which office he resigned in 1783 when the epidemic had passed. He was then invited to examine the quicksilver mines of Chile; the mines in
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expedition to visit South America and collect such useful plants as could be cultivated in France
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plants, of which more than 60 are new species, accompanied by valuable notes on the plants of
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and Chile, their cultivation and use, and it is one of the most complete that exists in
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of the flora of South America. Botanists have honored his memory by giving his name,
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and collected the plants indigenous to that country. During his stay in
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He ran away from home and acquired a thorough knowledge of botany in
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Mémoires à l'académie des sciences sur les mines de mercure du Chili
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who had to flee to London with them when Spain demanded these also.
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flora, also accumulating much valuable information concerning the
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Lettres sur le salpêtre du Pérou, et la phosphorescence de la mer
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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he put in working order, and discovered the mines in
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Metrication in the United States § 18th century
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Dombey's collections are among the treasures of the
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