sentences:  He boarded a ship bound for the United States and on the voyage was robbed of his remaining worldly goods and arrived in Philadelphia totally destitute.He joined a circus as a musician to earn some money, and finally obtained work curating the private botanical collection of the painter Charles Willson Peale.He joined the American Philosophical Society, contributed to its "Transactions", and resumed his collecting with the sponsorship of the French minister, Pierre Adet, a scientist in his own right.