8 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
Alice Eastwood. 
I present here the portrait of Miss Eastwood,(following my 
announced plan of using photos of such in their prime, )who is 
first in being the most indefatigable woman in America. There 
are few botanists who know of the herculean task she set for her- 
self, and simply for the love of it, the remaking of the herbarium 
of the California Academy of Science, which was destroyed by the 
earthquake. That herbarium ranked first in the West as the de- 
pository of the types of Californian plants. 
o not take much stock in hunches. they are often ballu- 
cinations, but Miss Eastwood had a hunch that she should collect 
all the types in the herbarium, and it soon became an obsession, 
and she obeyed it. When the great quake came it did not destroy 
the building but did break the water mains and so made the great 
fire possible amb which soon reduced everything to ashes, Imme- 
diately after the anak ale hurried to the Academy and carric< 
off the precious types hen she has given her life to rebuild 
the herbarium, working early and late, going everywhere, suifer- 
‘ng any inconvenience and loss of time and money, just so the her- 
barium benefited. When I inspected the new library and rows of 
leaves will soon obscure our graves, but it will be many a day be- 
magnificent work for the 
