DR. ALBERT KELLOGG. . 149 
of California life he met with many which scientific botanists 
knew nothing of), he liked to give it a Latin name and a for- 
mal description ; but his terminology was somewhat original 
and his way of making Latin adjectives still more so, inso- 
much that grammarians have been obliged to correct the end- 
ings of many of them before giving them further currency. 
A vein of religious feeling, which was deep in him, fre- 
quently obtained expression in his botanical writings. Trained 
by Wesleyan parents to daily reading of the Sacred Scriptures, 
his interest in them, and especiálly in the historical books of 
the Old Testament, deepened in after years, when he had 
learned to interpret them by the rules of Swewdenborg, of 
whom he was an ardent disciple; and, as botanists in general 
have been wont to draw names, or at least the suggestions of 
them, largely from Greek aud Roman mythology, Dr. Kel- 
logg in more than one instance drew them from the Hebrew 
classics with which he was so familiar. Perhaps set even . 
the English name of Abram’s Oak which he proposed for his 
“Quercus Morehus” has failed to give a clew to the enigma of 
that specific name. It is the Doctor’s Latinization of Moreh, 
where the great patriarch of Bible fame once dwelt. The Re- 
port on the Forests of California, a paper of more than a hun- 
dred octavo pages, published in 1882 as a Supplement to the 
Report of the State Mineralogist, exhibits well that com- 
mingling of matters poetical, theological and botanical which 
was characteristic. . And this peculiar style of writing he in- 
dulged in without any confusion of fact and fancy in regard 
to scientific objects described. His botanical eye was keen 
and quick, and he was conscientiously exact in his descriptions, 
in so far as he had command of terms, and in his delineations. 
Everything which he has written can be relied upon, in so 
far as relates to the real aspects or ch aracteristies of the bush 
or tree or weed or leaf or flower ; and even his most rhapsodi- 
cal productions, when they have a tree or a shrub for their 
text, deserve careful reading for the sake of the scientific 
facts recorded in them. 
His name as a botanical writer is associated with a consider- 
