Westminster College. Xew Wilmington, West Pennsylvania, 

 about 1905. 



During Kevin's residence in Los Angeles, he became 

 acquainted with many of the prominent botanists of this coun- 

 trv. He conducted Gray and Parry on trips in this vicinity, 

 Laurel Canyon. Verdugo, etc., and could relate many pleasant 

 incidents of what were surely inspiring walks and conversa- 

 tion. Farlow, the cryptogramic botanist of Harvard LTniver- 

 sity, was also an early visitor to Los Angeles, whom Nevin 

 associated with on botanical rambles. He knew and collect- 

 ed with most of the early California botanists: Lemmon 

 (who was an odd fellow), Albert Kellogg, Dr. Behr, D. Cleve- 

 land, Orcutt, Mr. and Mrs. Brandegee, Parish, W. S. Lyon, 

 Dr. Davidson, and others. 



He visited Santa Catalina Island with W. S. Lyon, a local 

 collector, who later went to Washington, and procured a lot 

 of interesting plants, including Gilia nevinii. He made other 

 excursions to Lang Station, Tehachapi, Fresno in the San 

 Joaquin Valley; in the San Fernando Valley (Tujunga Wash) 

 he first collected that peculiar and interesting shrub, Berberis 

 nevinii Grav ; and at Newhall he collected the white-woolly 

 Coleosanthus nevinii Gray. 



Dr. Nevin was one of the founders and an active member 

 of this Academy, later being elected a Fellow. And he was 

 a Corresponding Member of the California Academy in San 

 Francisco. He "received the degree of Ph. D. from Washing- 

 ton and jefiferson College, and LL.D. from Westminster Col- 

 lege. He was interested all his life in the study of the topog- 

 raphy of ancient Jerusalem, and concentrating his attention 

 on it after retiring from the active work of the ministry 

 among the Chinese^in 1901 ; he completed a manuscript of 350 

 typewritten pages, with diagrams, etc.. entitled, "The Topog- 

 raphy of Ancient Jerusalem and the Temple." 



Dr. Nevin was a thorough and complete master of the 

 Chinese language, reading, writing and speaking it fluently; 

 even better \han the English language; he even admitted to 

 his friends that he could no longer appreciate English idioms, 

 but did appreciate the Chinese idioms! 



Our interest in Nevin is chiefly botanical, and as long as 

 lovers of the local flora meet with the peculiar shrub Berberis 

 nevinii in the Tujunga Wash, or the composite, Coleosanthus 

 nevinii on the drv foothills, his name and service to botany 

 will remain fresh'in our memories; and we will try to honor 

 this pioneer student and collector in our field and herbarium 

 work; the first resident naturalist in Los Angeles. 



"That our remembrance, though unspoken, 

 May reach him where he lives." 



Fordyce Grinnell, Jr. 



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