554 I^IST OF PERSONS WHO HAVE MADE 



Sesse contains delineations of several Nootka species (such as Rubus Na(knnus), and apparently 

 a few from Califoniia ; but most of them were Mexican. Tiiis collection of twelve liumlred 

 drawings (cited as Ic. V\. Mex. ined., and on which n number of genera and species were founded) 

 •was leit by Alo(;ifio in Iho hands of Dc Candolle, but after some years was suddenly reclaimed, upon 

 which occasion copies of most of tliem weie secured by tJie united hibors of the principal hidius of 

 Geneva. It is said tiiat the herbarium made by JIo(;iho and Sesse went to Madrid ; but a jior- 

 tion was certainly ac(piired by Lambeit (see Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. l()i)), and upon the 

 breaking up of his herbarium is tliought to have been aciiuired by tiie Hritish Museum. 



Dr. Geokgk Heinrich von Langsdokfk, who started from Europe on the Kussian expedi- 

 tion under Captain Krusenstern, instead of returning with the ships of the expedition, visited 

 California in the -siiip Juno, with Count Hesanolf, reaching San Francisco Bay April 9, 1806, and 

 remaining until May 22, making excursions in the mean time about tlie Bay and to San Jose. 

 I'artly owing to mishaps, and jwrtly to the dilhculty of drying his specimens on the small .ship, 

 his botanical collection was meagre. At this visit, Count Ucsanolf made arrangements for plant- 

 ing a Russian colony in California, which was accomplished six years later. Dr. Langsdorlf is 

 said to have visited the region again in 1824, in connection with the second expedition of Kotzebuo 

 to California. 



Adalbeut von CiiAMisso, as botanist, and Johann Fiuedhich [Iwan Iwanowitsch] Escit- 

 SCHULTZ, as surgeon and naturalist, were on the expedition that was fitted out by Count Koman- 

 zofT, under Captain Kotzebue, in the ahiwPiurik, and spent the month of October, 1816, at San 

 Francisco, making excursions to Bodega, San Jose, Monterey, and about the Bay. Descriptions 

 of the plants were published by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in Linnaui, in the ten volumes from 

 1825 to 1834, and by Dr. Eschscholtz in a short paper entitled " Descriptio Plantarum Novaj 

 Califoniiffi," in the ^Memoirs of the Academy of St. Petersburg in 1823. Some of the more nota- 

 ble specimens were the subjects of special papers in other publications, as in Nees's " Horse Pliy- 

 sicoe," in which Eschsclioltzia was published. Dr. Eschscholtz again accompanied Kotzebue on 

 his second voyage to California, arriving in September, 1824. 



The English expedition known as Captain Beechey's (1825 to 1828), on the ship Blossom, 

 reached California late in 1827. Alexander Collie, surgeon to the expedition, and Mr. G. 

 Thadescant Lay, botanist and naturalist, made a collection of about one hundred and seventy- 

 five species. Mr. Scemann (in the introduction to his "Botany of the Voyage of the J fcrahl") siiys 

 that the specimens did not reach Europe in a satisfactory condition, and moreover were mixed up 

 with those of Loo Choo, giving rise to some confusion, but that Messrs. Hooker and Arnott had 

 nuuie the best use of the mateiial in tlieir " Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage." The speeimen.s, 

 collected at San Francisco Bay, and a few at ^lonterey, are mainly preserveil in the Hookeriun 

 Herbarium at Kew. 



The Russian-American Fur Company planted a colony at Bo<lega in 1812, and in 1820 estab- 

 lished Fort Ross, forty miles northward in the valley of the Russian River. They surrendered 

 the territory in 1841, and left early in the next year. During this occupancy many botanical 

 specimens were sent to St. Petersburg. Precisely how early tliese collections began, or who were 

 tlie collectors, other than Wrangel and Wosnessensky, I have no information. But various Cali- 

 fornian species were first described from specimens sent from this colony, or from plants grown 

 in the botanic gardens of Europe from seeds collected here. 



Baron (and Admiral) von Wuanoel arrived at Bodega about 1829, and lived there as gov- 

 ernor of the Russian Possessions in America. He sjjent a number of years here, and collected 

 many plants and seeds, which were sent to the Botanic Garden of St. Peter.sburg. 



David Douglas, a Scotch botanist, travelling under the ansiiices of the Horticultural Society 

 of London, reached the Northwest Coast early in 182.5. He botanized extensively in Washington 

 Territory and Oregon, getting as far so\ith as the Umpqua River, but not reaching the borders of 

 California. On a second trip from England he again reached the coa.st eariy in 1830, and in 

 December of that year came into California, where he remained botanizing from Monterey south- 

 ward to Santa Barbara (May, 1831), and again northward to San Francisco and Sonoma County 

 (38° 45'), returuint( to Monterey, and thence, in October, 1832, went by way of the Sandwich 

 Islands to the Columbia. The next year he visited tiie Sandwich Islands, where he lost his life 

 a few montlis later. His letters, giving an account of much of Ids tiavels in California and 

 northward, nuiy be found in the second volume of Hooker's "Companion to tiie Botanical Maga- 

 zine." He collected nearly five hundred species in the State. An indefatigable collector, a close 

 observer, and an enthusiastic traveller, he added more to the knowl(!(lge of the botany of the 

 region than all the botanists who had gone before him. His Californian collections were chieflv 



