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this respect, was the pleasant event of his meeting, as he 
did somewhere in the south, with Audubon, the famous orni- 
thologist, who desired his help and his companionship in 
what must have been the most alluring of all prospects to 
Dr. Kellogg, an extended tour southwestward, exploring 
regions new and unknown to both. During his few years of 
professional life he had continued, as in boyhood and youth. 
to spend all his spare time in field and woodland rambles and 
observations. And we who know something of his zeal, his 
love of nature, his virtues of simplicity, humility, patience 
and cheerful readiness to do all kinds of work, involved- in 
scientific travel on American frontier lands, are certain that 
Audubon had, in him, both an agreeable and a serviceable 
companion. This journey landed our botanist eventually in 
San Antonio, Texas, in the autumn of 1845. : 
Returning from Texas to his native State, heappears soon to 
have been upon his way toother and new fields of study, in Ohio 
and other parts of the Mississippiriver region. There is uncer- 
tainty about the length of time occupied in these new journey- 
ings ; but, at the time of the discovery of gold in California, he 
Wasagain near the borders of his native New England, and. 
reaching home, he found himselfaman of some well earned local 
fame for travel, and was sought out and desired to joina small 
party of voyagers to California. Prompted, as we may think, 
more by the naturalist’s than by the gold seeker's impulses, he 
joined them; a schooner was bought and provisioned and sail 
wasset. This company reached Sacramento, by way of the Straits 
of Magellan, as early as the eighth of August, 1849. Landings 
had been made on Tierra del Fuego, and at several points along 
the southern coasts of South America, and the botanist had 
eagerly availed himself of every opportunity for collecting 
plant specimens. This collection which would in after years 
have been of individual interest, as well as of scientific value, 
perished by a flood at Sacramento, not long after the arrival. 
After three or four years at Sacramento and in the mining 
districts above that place, Dr. Kellogg took up his residence 
in San Francisco, exerting himself from the first to procure 
