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declined, as he had decided to visit the Hawaiian Islands, 

 long famous for their unique flora. Honolulu was reached 

 March 15, 1895, and eight months spent on the islands 

 of Kauai and Oahu. Of both flowering plants and 

 cryptogams, about seventy-five new species were discovered. 



While at San Francisco, the botanists of the University 

 of California, at Berkeley, and of Leland Stanford, Jr., were 

 visited, and nearly all of the time spent at the herbarium of 

 the California Academy of Sciences. 



Early in December he again arrived in Lancaster, and 

 after Christmas repaired to New York to verify the deter- 

 minations made from Hildebrand's " Flora of the Hawaiian 

 Islands." 



In April, 1896, Mr. Heller and wife started for Idaho to 

 spend the summer in collecting. Two months were spent 

 at Lewiston, at the junction of the Clearwater and Snake 

 Rivers, and the same length of time in the Craig Mountains, 

 at Lake Waha and Forest, twenty and thirty-five miles 

 respectively, south of Lewiston. The usual number of 

 interesting species were collected, among them a dozen or 

 more new ones. 



While at Lewiston an offer of the position of Assistant 

 Botanist of the Geological and Natural History Survey was 

 tendered him and promptly accepted. He was later 

 located at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where 

 he had charge of the rapidly growing herbarium of that 

 institution. In March, 1898, was issued by Dr. Heller a 

 new check list of North American plants. It contains a 

 list of 14,534 names, an increase of 2000 names over any 

 catalogue previously issued. It is the direct outcome of 

 Dr. Heller's connection with the large herbarium at the 



