CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 16 



came from. Torrey pointed to the sky and said nothing, i his seemed to be 

 the universal opinion of him at Harvard. I should judge that he was a tall 

 man, dignffied and self-contained and formal. His letters to me, which were 

 many, were business-like and to the point and colorless. There never was 

 the slightest degree of friendliness or the opposite in any of them. There 

 was not the companionableness of Gray in any of them. 



I went minutely through his greatest work, the hot my of she 40th par- 

 allel, and I found it the best ever published on American botany. It should 



of any region in this country. Though the -ubjeet of Lfe zones was not 

 known in those days, Watson's resume gave all tin d< :. i!- necessary for such 

 a study. In his Death Valley report Coville made a clumsy attempt to copy 

 this work, and without any sign of a recognition of where he got his informa- 

 tion. I do not know the official title of Watson at Harvard, but he was in 

 fact an understudy of Gray through many years. His name will always be 

 mentioned in his •..'hi. the Bibliographical 



Index, and the Botany of California. Watson seems to have done most of 

 the work on the Synoptical Flora outside of the Gamopetalae. Much of his 

 time was taken up by describing and identifying the collections made in the 

 west and in Mexico by various collectors, at a time when the most activity 

 was on in botanical exploration. From time to time he got out synopses of 

 genera and families. He died before his work was complete, died in the 

 harness. In quantity of work he was inferior only to Gray. II:- jud. merit 

 was mostly sound on generic and - c'ih li mm>. Hi- :"\.t<< erect 

 was a penchant for short descriptions. 



I began this whom I have known, more as reminis- 



cences of the dead, but it has become so ve, and puts me 



in the position of omitting important names. Cusick was one of our best 

 collectors. He was a most lovable man, a school teacher at Union, Oregon, 

 where his idolized wife died and broke hi* heart and caused his early death. 

 Then there was Joseph Howell of Portland, Oregon, a great collector who 

 worked under much difficulty and got out his Bora with the help of his 

 admirable wife. Then there was Lemmon of Oakland, California, an old 

 soldier of the Rebellion and an invalid. His name is the most mentioned of 

 any in the botany of CaKforn He was a ad w of all other botanists 

 and hard to do anything with. Then there was Dr. C. L. Anderson of Santa 

 Cruz, who had moved from Carson City, Nevad . whose name is often men- 

 tioned by Watson. There were Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Ames of the Sierras, 

 who did considerable collecting. The m isi noted 1 I nisi of them all was 

 the genial Dr. Albert Kellogg of San Ft I >r. Harkness and 



Dr. Behr, were the argonauts who helped to found the Academy of Science. 

 Dr. Kellogg was red-headed and small, a good artist whose later years were 

 spent on the oaks and whose fine drawings Greene has perpetuated. Dr. 

 Kellogg was the first of all the botanists of our day. There were other 

 botanists whom I never met, but thi\ do r.o: come m !er my view here. 



