This early interest in botany led to his being sent on a collecting trip in the Pyrenees in 1845-6.
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After his return, he passed the last 17 years of his life in nearby Coneysthorpe.
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Throughout the twentieth century, countless adventurers and explorers, including Colonel Edwards Cranston Brooks and Commander George Miller Dyott, used Spruce's paper in their quest for the Treasure of the Llanganatis.
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