132 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
At this point on June 3, 1934, my father, Prof. Marcus E. Jones met 
with a fatal accident. He was returning alone from a day’s field trip in 
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struck in the rear by another car and overturned. He was thrown out, 
suffering a basal fracture and other injuries, and instantly killed. He 
died as he had wished, “in the harness”. In his home, or workshop, 
where he lived alone, were found his printing press, fonts of type, the 
completed pages of this “Contribution” and a binder of various manu- 
scripts, most of which he must have intended to work over and print; 
for he planned 100 pages more. I have done my best to arrange the ma- 
terial, condensing as necessary. His recent notes on Opuntia can be 
found in “Desert”, a magazine on succulents published in Pasadena. He 
probably intended to include his list of plants collected on a recent trip 
rough Mendocino county and into Oregon, but it is impossible for me 
to include it. The rather long manuscript has been left at the herbarium 
of Pomona College with Dr. Munz, where it can be consulted by anyone 
interested. There also can be found his many books of manuscript of 
his unfinished “Flora of the Great Basin.” 
In these pages I have not tried to delete all of his caustic comments 
(although not assuming responsibility for them). I did not like to de- 
stroy so characteristic a flavor, whic many of his correspondents evi- 
dently enjoyed; else why did they ask for more ? Those who knew him 
well, knew that his “bark was worse than his bite”, that he would go to 
Mabel Jones Broaddus 
( Se NORTH AMERICAN BOTANY. See also Cont. 15:743 
12:82; 3:78). 
About the time Pursh’s Flora came out, there came to America a 
talented Frenchman by the name of Rafinesque,— a man with an ex- 
alted opinion of his own importance, who became the pest of American 
ny. He was three years older than Nuttall who was born in 1786. 
Nuttall was a high-strung Englishman, who became curator of the Har- 
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