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the Philadelphia Academy, and one remaining in the growing collection of the 

 Academy. George Davidson described this Alaskan trip thus : 



We lived in the same contracted temporary deck cabin for four or five months 

 under many trials and inconveniences, and the sweetness of [Kellogg's] character was as 

 pervading and refreshing as the beauty and fragrance of the flowers he gathered. . . . 

 He was completely absorbed in his duties; he knew no cessation to the labor of col- 

 lection and preservation; his genial nature attracted assistance from every one, and 

 all learned to admire and to love him. 



Davidson continues : 



[Kellogg] worked for the [Academy] and believed in its success when the number 

 of members could have been counted on one's fingers, and when the means of sup- 

 porting such an institution and publishing its results came wholly from their pro- 

 fessional earnings. 



From 1867 to 1870 Dr. Kellogg visited localities from Donner and Cisco to Ukiah, 

 Red IMountain, Cahto, and Santa Cruz Island. Scwne of his local trips recall the 

 days when the geography of California was quite different from today: "Lobos 

 Creek, near San Francisco"! These collections often, though not always, carried 

 collection numbers but a new series was evidently initiated every year. His last 

 decade was pretty constantly spent drawing trees and shrubs. More than four 

 hundred of these drawings "including all the oaks, all the coniferous trees, 

 poj^lars, many of the willows and ceanothi, dogwoods, and many herbaceous 

 species" were left with his friends. Dr. W. P. Gibbons and Mr. Harford, to be 

 disposed of as they might think best. The oak drawings were published with 

 commentary by Professor E. L. Greene as West American Oaks, under a sub- 

 vention from Captain James Monroe McDonald, 1825-1907, pioneer capitalist 

 and philanthropist. Captain McDonald was one of the three donors of the Rick- 

 secker Collection of Coleoptera to the University of California in 1881. Kellogg's 

 drawings showed "the very faithfulness of detail with the taste of an artist," 

 yet "the botanist may rely upon the scrupulous exactness of every minute line 

 and dot." Kellogg would not have claimed the rank of scientific botanist but 

 rather a nature lover in the true and full sense. Kellogg lived in the early years 

 at San Francisco with Harford in a small place on Telegraph Hill where they 

 kept "batchelor's hall." He never married and died at the home of his very dear 

 friend Harford in Oakland in 1887. William H. Brewer tersely summarized his 

 role when he wrote, "no name is more intimately associated with the botany of 

 the state during this period" than Kellogg's. 



John Allen Veatch was one of those early collectors whose specimens engaged 

 Kellogg's attention. Veatch lived in Texas from 1836 until 1845, during which 

 years he had met the enthusiastic botanical collector, Charles Wright. Veatch 

 left a wife and five children in Texas to join the Gold Rush, and when his wife 

 Ann failed to hear from her husband as the months stretched into years she filed 

 a petition for divorce on the grounds of continued abandonment. It is not certain 

 just when Veatch first got in touch with the Academy but in 1855 he was elected 

 a corresponding member and he later served as Curator of Conchology. During 

 these years Dr. Veatch — for he had certified for practice in the custom of those 

 days — traveled from Red Bluff to the Salton Sea, where he carefully inspected 

 the mud volcanoes and wrote his observations. In 1858 Veatch was on Cedros 

 Island [written "Cerros Island" in contemporary accounts], where lie was pre- 

 ceded only by the surgeon aboard H.M.S. Herald, Mr. J. Goodridge. Veatch "s 



