Dombey succeeded in escaping to France by way of Le Havre, and secured, on Buffon's recommendation, an indemnity of 10,000 francs and an annual pension of 1,200 francs. His remaining botanical collections were transferred to the French botanist L'Héritier who had to flee to London with them when Spain demanded these also. In 1793 he was sent on a mission to the United States to help with metrication, but was captured by privateers and imprisoned in Montserrat, where he died. Legacy Dombey's collections are among the treasures of the British Museum, the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, and the Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle of Paris. His grand herbarium contains over 1,500 South American plants, of which more than 60 are new species, accompanied by valuable notes on the plants of Peru and Chile, their cultivation and use, and it is one of the most complete that exists in Europe of the flora of South America. Botanists have honored his memory by giving his name, Dombeya, to a genus of plants. Works Lettres sur le salpêtre du Pérou, et la phosphorescence de la mer (1786) Mémoires à l'académie des sciences sur les mines de mercure du Chili (1786) Mémoire sur le cuivre muriaté (1787) Posthumous works (published by L'Héritier): Flore Perouvienne (Paris, 1799, 2 vols., in 4o) L'Herbier de Dombey expliqué (Paris, 1811, 6 vols., in 4o) Observations de Dombey faites au Chili et au Pérou (Paris, 1813, in 4o) See also Notes References Attribution: External links 1742 births 1794 deaths 18th-century French botanists People from Mâcon