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decisions — Appeal to Supreme Court — Cleve- 

 land's intervention — Harlan's decision 

 5. Obstacle of debt — Mrs. Stanford's anxiety — 

 Putting Stanford into the California Constitu- 

 tion — A valuable burden — The Jewel Fund 



— Efforts to legalize a last will and testament — 

 A cold opinion — Forlorn hope — Rigid econ- 

 omies — Blanket deeds — Unflinching devotion 



— A sacred trust 



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1. Need of a new residence — The "woodpecker 

 tree" — The orchard — Our friends the quails 



— Other feathered tenants — Some monkey 

 folk — Maternal yearnings — A simian Mazeppa 



— Loro Bonito — A difficult accomplishment — 

 Coloratura duets — Furry invaders 



2. Save the Redwoods — The Big Basin statute 



— California Redwood Park — The Pinnacles 

 Reserve — Lake Tahoe — Desolation Valley 

 and Heather Lake — The Tahoe dyke — Up 

 and over Rockbound — Circuit of Lake Tahoe 



— The Bret Harte country — Plumas County 



— Lassen's Butte 



3. An inclusive memoir on American fishes — Good 

 helpers — University extension — "The Physi- 

 cal Basis of Heredity" — Collecting at Mazatlan 



— New friends — A nightmare — Love and 

 science — Ygnacio — Our gringo Colorado — A 

 paradise of birds — Good talkers — Hidden 

 treasure — Ygnacio's escopete 



4. The Pioneers graduate — The Yellowstone again 



— Mountain chipmunks — The Devil's Wood- 

 pile — A national university — Hoyt's efl^orts — 

 Opportunities for research — Influential advo- 

 cates — Argument before the Senate — Real 

 scholars not partisan — Discussions pro and con 



— Faction in science — Election as president — 

 After the great fire — Natural History groups 



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