DR. ALBERT KELLOGG. 151 
During the last ten years of his life he was at his table in the 
Academy, pretty constantly, day after day, at work with pen- 
cil and pen, making drawings of his favorites, the California 
trees and shrubs in leaf, flower and fruit. The amount of labor 
bestowed on each species was wonderful, and will be best un- 
derstood when it is said that his practice was, to take first, 
with pencil and transparent paper, an exact outline of every 
leaf, showing each individual notch and vein and veinlet ; and 
this being accomplished, the whole was done on suitable 
paper or board, in ink. Thus, at some sacrifice of natural 
grace, his later drawings are most minutely faithful to nature ; 
and many of them are truly beautiful. Upwards of four hun- 
dred of these drawings, including all the oaks, all the coni- 
ferous trees, the poplars, many of the willows and ceanothi, 
dogwoods, and many herbaceous plants were left by him in 
charge of his friends, Dr. William P. Gibbons and Mr. Har- 
ford, to be disposed of as they might think best. 
