CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY ep et 
Botanists Whom I have Known. 
‘With this issue I present the portraits of the botanists I have 
Axnown, those worthy of consideration from my standpoint, and of 
others whose work has made them notorious. 
I have also contended it is a botanical crime to use tage “i 
men taken after they had ceased to be effective (in old age). 
-one cares to be presented in that condition, but necessity hoe 
times requires it when no other photo is available. 
The three men and one woman, who stand out most promi- 
ently in Californian botany, have left no really good photos of 
fhemselves. There is but one oo cate photo of Brandegee and 
his wife, presented here. There isa fair one of ‘Parish, also pre- 
sented here. There is but one phat. of myself that I would ever 
care to represent me, but my friends prefer the older one, both 
given here. Several others have been printed in various papers 
and magazines, but none of them were satisfactory to me. 
-concession to my fr iends I give the latter also 
There are good photos of Gray and Watson available, but 
i have found none of N Hall. Pursh, Michaux, Kellogg, Ross 
Coulter, or Bessey I did not know ise paren or the earlier bot- 
anists. Kellogg was the third, mentioned aboy 
