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the Botany of California, and their willingness to render assistance, by 

 giving directions to important localities, etc. I wish particularly to 

 mention in that connection assistance rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Brande- 

 gee and Miss Alice Eastwood, of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 and Prof, and Mrs. J. G. Lemmon, Botanists, of Oakland, Cal. At San 

 Bernardino it was my delight and good fortune to meet Mr. S. B. Parish, 

 Author of Trees of Southern California, etc., who rendered me very 

 valuable assistance, and who, with Mrs. Parish, made my stay in their 

 locality among the pleasantest experiences of my California trip. 



Last, but by no means least, I wish to gratefully acknowledge the 

 courtesies extended by Mr. C. P. Huntington, President of the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad Company, whose liberality in aiding the diffusion of 

 knowledge of our trees is already attested by his contributions to the 

 Jesup collection of Woods in the American Museum of Natural History 

 in New York. 



Part VI, AMERICAN WOODS, comprises the first installment of the 

 woods of the Pacific Slope. Our present purpose is to continue the 

 woods of that region in the parts of the series immediately following, 

 Part VII being already well advanced. 



LOWVILLE, N. Y., March 5, 1895. 



