CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 15 
with me. She knew that I had called his Eschscholtzia work “bo- 
tanical drivel*‘, 
ince she was irreligious, one would expect to hear her rant 
against, as most scoffers do, but, though she held nothing sacred, 
she was scrupulously honest even in her thinking. For example, 
Miss Eastwood began browsing in my field, the Navajo Basin, and 
collected several species that I had discovered years before and not 
described because of the incipient ruction with Gray, but now that 
protect Miss E. she printed her article first, without consulting 
me. Many botanists would have been sore over it for I was the 
is rare. 
Yon would not expect much precision in a chronic female reb- 
el, but Mrs. Brandegee was a model in thoroughness in her botan- 
ical work, and she put the herbarium on a sound basis both in the 
mounting and arrangement of specimens. She was the author of 
the wellnigh universal method of mounting specimens, which I 
would not tolerate if I controlled a herbarium. The gluing of 
specimens directly on the sheets, instead of by stickers is ruinous 
t was i i 
e 
beginning of a new era, Mrs. Curran fell ‘‘insanely in love‘ with 
srandegee, as she put it in a letter to her sister. It surely was a 
droll affair, a most intensely masculine woman desperately in love 
with the most retiring and effeminate man, and both of them dead 
in earnest about it, the man too with other women buzzing around 
like flies in fly-time. 
It was at this time that Brandegce had a legacy of $40,000, 
So they married, and if there ever was a pair of marital chuma 
they were it. She never dominated him for he would not tolerate 
such athing. She was not a worshiper of any man. But she 
knew her place and kept it, a thing that few womendo. | 
