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A BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL 

 Vol. IV. APRIL, 1893. No. i. 



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 varieties. The lapse of time and better 

 knowledge have left valid less than sixty of the.se, 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 Euiianus a?igtisiatus, Spharalcea fulva, 

 Calj'ptridiitm nudutn, 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 Kellogg's unpublished 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, ^^ 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. i, pp. 128-151. 



