156 CONTRIBUTIONS TO .WESTERN BOTANY 
ous effort to carry.enough of the family financial burden to enable Prof. 
Jones to finish his life-work. All three children had graduated from col- 
lege and were either married or teaching. Prof. Jones had only himself 
to support but was faced with the problem of housing safely his vast 
herbarium during his long absences. For a while it was stored at the 
University of Utah. : 
By 1920 the manuscript of his revision of Astragalus was practically 
finished, but he was financially unable to publish it until 1923, when he 
sold his huge herbarium to Pomona College. During the preceding years 
of anxiety he had tried many ways of earning money. He wrote many 
short articles on interesting experiences he had had and sold some to 
various magazines. He could probably have sold more if he had 
not been too proud to enlist the criticism and revision of some one skil- 
led in English composition. His writing showed much originality and 
Sahai expression but it was carelessly constructed and poorly organ- 
zed. He also enlarged and colored by hand some of his choicest photo- 
ephis views and sold many of them. But extravagance in taking pic- 
tures and carelessness of finish prevented that from being a very success- 
ful venture. He certainly spent many thousands of ane in his life- 
ime on cameras, slides, color-photography, enlargements, etc. He even 
experimented with zinc etching. At his death he had aunties of plates 
taken 30 or 40 years ago, of beautiful scenery, plants, geological for- 
mations, mines, and people. Many that were of especial scientific inter- 
est were left at Pomona College. Others are at Stockton awaiting 
suitable disposal. Anyone having — use for them should make it 
known before they have to be destroyed. 
When not on field trips, Prof. ais “kept fit” by tennis-playing and 
ice-skating, at both of which he was quite an expert. The tennis he 
kept up in a little club of men at Pomona until he was 80 years old. At 
Pomona he also took great pleasure in the in a ae meetings of the After- 
noon Club, made up mostly of brilliant and interesting men who had re- 
tired from their former serieition He greatly enjoyed various Nature 
hundred miles or more in order not to miss one of their trips. On one 
of them his last day was spent. 
In 1925, when he was 73 years old, he returned alone to Grinnell, 
Iowa, in his old 1916 Ford to his soth class reunion, where he met one 
or two of his old classmates and was honored by being made honorary 
marshall of the alumni parade. It was amusing and perhaps regrettable 
that his scale of values placed personal appearance in the category of 
non-essentials. His face was so interesting, his eyes so keen and spark- 
ling, and his conversation so entertaining and instructive, that his friends 
always made allowances for the rest. He seemed oblivious to any possi- 
ble annoyance caused by his carelessness. 
Duri last eleven years a comfortable income enabled him to 
take many trips all over the western states and to publish his own Con- 
