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usual sources are given; indeed, many of the better known references are omitted 

 for the more prominent persons in the interest of saving space in favor of over- 

 looked commentary. Particular effort has been made to list less familiar sources 

 of information. These sometimes include commentary of a very incidental nature 

 in autobiographies and the like where persons may be succinctly evaluated as 

 well as identified, 



A few important general accounts of reference value to anyone concerned 

 with the San Francisco region are indicated by an asterisk prefixed to the code 

 word in the following list. 



ABBREVIATIONS 



The following biographical directories, dictionaries, and various published sources 

 of Information on the life, travels, and collections of naturalists associated with San 

 Francisco are referred to by the italicized abbreviation explained here: 



ACAB Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, ed. by J. G. Wilson and John 

 Fiske with rev. supp. New York, 1887-1924. 



*Alden Alden, Roland H., and John D. Ifft, Early naturalists in the Far West. Occ. 

 Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci., 20:i-v, 1-59. 1943. 



ADB Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic. Leipzig, 1875-1912. 



Amsci American Men of Science, ed. by Jacques and J. McKeen Cattell. Ed. 1 (1906); 

 ed. 2 (1910) ; ed. 3 (1921) ; ed. 4 (1927) ; ed. 5 (1933) ; ed. 6 (1938) ; ed. 7 (1944). 



Bade Bade, William Frederic, Life and Letters of John Muir. Boston and New York, 



1923-1924. 

 Blankins?iip Blankinship, Joseph William, A century of botanical exploration in 



Montana, 1805-1905: collectors, herbaria and bibliography. Montana Ag. Coll. 



Sci. Studies Bot., 1:1-31. 1904. 



Bradley Bib. Rehder, Alfred, Bradley Bibliography. A Guide to the Literature of the 

 Woody Plants of the World Published Before the Beginning of the Twentieth 

 Century. 5 Vols. Cambridge, Mass., 1911-1918. 



*Breicer Brewer, William H., List of persons who have made botanical collections in 

 California. In Sereno Watson, Botany of California, 2:553-559. 1880. 



Brewster Brewster, E. T., Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney. Boston, 1909. 



Britten Britten, James, and George S. Boulger, A Biographical Index of Deceased 

 British and Irish Botanists. Ed. 2. London, 1931. 



Butler Butler, Ruth Lapham, A Check List of Manuscripts in the Edward E. Ayer Col- 

 lection. Newberry Library, Chicago, 1937. 



Candolle de Candolle, Alphonse, La Phytographie. Paris, 1880, esp. pp. 383-462. 



Carpenter Carpenter, Mathilde M., Bibliography of biographies of entomologists. Amer. 

 Midi. Nat., 33:1-116. 1945. 



DAB Dictionary of American Biography, ed. by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone. 

 New York, 1928-1937, and Suppl. I, 1944. 



Dall Dall, William Healey, Spencer Fullerton Baird, a Biography. Philadelphia and 



London, 1915. 

 DNB Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by L. Stephen and S. Lee. London. 1885- 



1901, and supplements. 

 Dean Dean, Bashford, A Bibliography of Fishes. 3 vols. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.. New 



York, 1916-1923. 

 *Eastwood Eastwood, Alice, Early botanical explorers on the Pacific Coast and the 



trees they found there. Calif. Hist. Soc. Quart. 18(4) :335-346. 1939. 



