SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. KELLOGG. Vll 



justice and purity was so inborn that he instinctively knew the presence of the offender. 

 His moral life charmed the young and innocent, and was an example to the best. 



Through nearly twenty years of intercourse and companionship; in conference and in 

 discussion, I recall no instance of his uttering an unjust thought, or casting an unde- 

 served reflection: if he erred in judgment it was when he thought some one might have 

 been condemned harshly or upon insufficient evidence. He wished that all men and 

 women were good, and he believed there was some germ of goodness in each, although it 

 might unfortunately be latent. To his death bed he carried the good will of his large 

 heart towards the just, and hopeful pity towards the unjust. 



I am not competent to speak of the value of Dr. Kellogg's scientific botanical descrip- 

 tions and studies; that is left to authority; but I have no doubt of the excellence, and truth- 

 fulness of his illustrations. I have watched his work and have criticized its minute 

 accuracy; it was the very faithfulness of detail with the taste of an artist. But he never 

 took the artist's freedom for broad effects, so the botanist may rely upon the scrupulous 

 exactness of every minute line and dot. He could not do otherwise; it would have been 

 the unpardonable sin to have overlooked a fibre or have introduced a bud. His work is 

 truth. 



GEORGE DAVIDSON. 



Camp Colonna, Los Angeles Base Line, 

 November 29th, 1888. 



