14; CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
To me such an attitude is childish, the Bible puts it well in’ 
stying ** If thou faint in time of adversity thy strength is small.‘ 
We all have periods of feeling unappreciated. How can it be 
otherwise ? We bury ourselves in our shells and expect others to 
‘hz us out, but they are too busy with their own struggles. The 
only reward worth having is the consciousness that we have been 
honest with the truth and done our work well. Then-we are ex- 
empt from the devilish, cowardly. pussyfooting element always 
whispvring in our ears the sordid things of self-interest, that poi- 
son all good. It is no discredit that Kate's soul cried ‘out in an- 
and herbarium, and early began publishing valuable things such as 
identifications of Kellogg’s new species which relegated some of 
Gray’s names to synonymy, a daring thing in those days. There 
__ At will be well to recall that Greene was an Episcopalian min- 
ister at Silver City New Mexico when his name was prominent in 
Gray’s publications on western botany, along with many others, 
such as Lemmon, Howell, Cusick, and myself.. He moved to 
Berkeley as pastor there. Before long his social vices caused his: 
unfrocking. He then became a rabid Catholic. It was at this 
time that he was elected professor of botany at the state Univer- 
After 
California Academy of Science,followin ¢ 
; 1 g the death of Dr, Kellogg. 
That this was:caused by a flareup with Greene was evident for 
8 his nemeses, and she soon after got 
n woman have difficulties with men 
hey are vicious, but she never made anycommenton Greene when: 
