Biographical Notes 29 



A u g ' t Started for California, in connection with proposed 

 university for Governor Stanford. En route, 

 visited Minneapolis parks and saw H. W. S. Cleve- 

 land there. 



Sep. 29 "Site settled at last" for new University at Palo 

 Alto. 



Sep. 30 In San Francisco and "hope to see the park" 

 (twenty years after his original design of 1 866). 

 Visit followed by brief report (printed). 



Oct. 17 Reached Boston from California. 



1887: Work going on especially for Boston and Buffalo 

 Parks, two land subdivisions in Brookline and one 

 or two in Buffalo, and Arboretum for Dr. Webb at 

 Shelburne, Vt. Studies being made for a report on 

 National Zoo at Washington. 



General plan for the improvement of the Niagara 

 Reservation, by F. L. Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, 

 printed by the State of New York. 



Interested by Professor Sargent in the founding of 

 Garden and Forest, a journal to promote the land- 

 scape art. During the illness of the directing editor 

 Professor Sargent, Mr. Olmsted undertook much 

 work in connection with the magazine. 



Jan. 26 From Salt Lake City, having visited Black Rock, 

 Garfield, and Lake Point, writes to C. F. Adams, 

 President of Union Pacific Railroad in regard to 

 proposed hotel development at Garfield. 



