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A BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL 
MOL. LV. APRIL, 1893. No. 1. 
DR. ALBERT KELLOGG. 
The name of Kellogg is inseparably connected with the 
botany of California. Coming to this State in 1849, at the age 
of thirty-five, he lived for nearly forty years in the midst of a 
rich and varied flora. He published at various times during 
his residence, several genera, two hundred and fifteen species,* 
and several named varicties. The lapse of time and better 
knowledge have left valid less than sixty of these, but con- 
sidering his isolation, lack of books and herbarium this 
proportion contrasts very favorably with the work in California 
of some botanical writers of much greater pretension. During 
the years 1877-1883 publication by the California Academy 
of Sciences ceased, and with the exception of a few which 
appeared in a San Francisco newspaper, the Rural Press, the 
species described by him thereafter remained in the herbarium 
of the California Academy of Sciences with the MS. diagnoses. 
Several of these, as unanus angustatus, Spheralcea fulva, 
Calyptridium nudum, etc., have been described, either wholly 
or in part, from the types of Dr. Kellogg’s unpublished 
species, and no mention made of his work. 
He was one of a little band of seven who met at 129 Mont- 
gomery Street, in the office of L. W. Sloat, one of their number, 
on the fourth day of April, 1853, to found by the dim light of 
candles, which they had brought in their pockets, the California 
Academy of Sciences, now grown to proportions of which they 
could have hardly dreamed. When he died, March 31, 1887, he 
had long survived the rest. 
* An ‘annotated list of Dr. Kellogg’s species is to be found in Bull. 
Cal. Acad., Vol. 1, pp. 128-151. 
