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late in 1864 to accept a professorship in the Sheffield Scientific School 

 of Yale University, which he still holds. This gave opportunity to 

 H. N. Bolander, an enthusiast, who succeeded hira as State Botanist 

 and who is scarcely less celebrated than Brewer in the history of 

 that time. Bolander remained connected with the Survey until or 

 nearlv until its discontinuance, and for several years thereafter, until 

 about 1873, vigorously prosecuted field work throughout California; 

 and it may be said that the period from 1864 to 1873 practically 

 comprises that portion of his life of direct interest to botanical 

 history on the Pacific Coast. 



The field work of no explorer in California, unless that of Brewer 

 be excepted, has been more extensive. Succeeding an exploration 

 of the regions of Mt. Diablo, Mt. Tamalpais and the San Francisco 

 peninsula south to Sauta Cruz, he extended his excursions north- 

 ward and in 1864 reached the Russian River Valley and Ukiah, 

 and in the following year the coast region between Eureka and the 

 Navarro River. These regions, partly or wholly unexplored hith- 

 erto, yielded a large number of striking and remarkable new forms; 

 indeed, some of the localities were so attractive that they were 

 revisited. 



In 1866 he was sent by Dr. Whitney, Director and Geologist-in- 

 Chief to the Survey, to Long and Round Valleys, in Mendocino 

 county. This was early in the year, — in April. In June he 

 joined Clarence King's party for the Mariposa Big Tree grove, 

 Yosemite Valley, and the High Sierras. On September 1, 1866, 

 the party ascended Mt. Dana and passed, the next day, through 

 Bloody Canon to Mono Lake. In 1867 he was detailed for field 

 work in the Eel River country and about Red Mountain, which 

 proved, as to phsenogamous plants, a locality of exceptional 

 interest. An appropriation for the continuance of the Survey had 

 become extremely doubtful, and Bolander, in consequence, accepted 

 a position in the Cosmopolitan School in San Francisco; his vaca- 

 tions, however, he continued to devote to field work, collecting for 

 the most part in regions adjoining the newly-constructed Central 

 Pacific Railroad. 



In the year 1871 the subject of our sketch was nominated and 

 elected to the office of State Superintendent of Schools, serving the 

 full term — that is, until December, 1875. His travels in this 



