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

 a few from California ; but most of them were Mexican. This collection of twelve hundred 

 drawings (cited as Ic. Fl. Mex. ined., and on which a number of genera and species were founded) 

 •was left by Mocino in the hands of Dc Candolle, but after some years was suddenly reclaimed, upon 

 which occasion copies of most of them were secured by the united labois of the principal ladies of 

 Geneva. It is said that the herbarium made by Mocino and Sesse went to Madrid ; but a por- 

 tion was certainly acquiied by Lambert (see Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. 169), and upon the 

 breaking up of his herbarium is thought to have been acipiired by the British Museum. 



Dr. George Heinuich von Langsdokff, who started from Euro])e on the Russian expedi- 

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

 California in the ship Juno, with Count Kesanoff, reaching San Francisco Bay April 9, 1806, and 

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

 Partly owing to mishajis, and partly to the difficulty of drying his specimens on the small ship, 

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

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

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

 to California. 



AuALBEiiT VON Chamisso, as botanist, and Johann Fkieprich [Iwan Iwanowitsch] Esch- 

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

 zoff, under Captain Kotzebue, in the ship Pairik, 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 Linnsa, in the ten volumes from 

 1825 to 1834, and by Dr. Esclischoltz in a short paper entitled " Descriptio Plantarum Nova?. 

 Cajifornia?," 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 Phy- 

 sica," in which Esclischoltzia 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. 

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

 five species. Mr. Seemann (in the introduction to his " Botany of the Voyage of the Herald") says 

 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 

 made the best use of the material in their " Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage." The specimens, 

 collected at San Francisco Bay, and a few at Monterey, are mainly preserved in the Hookerian 

 Herbarium at Kew. 



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

 lished Fort Ross, forty miles noithward 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 these collections began, or who were 

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

 fomian 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 Wranoel arrived at Bodega about 1829, and lived there as gov- 

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

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



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

 of London, reached the Northwest Coast early in 1825. He botanized extensively in Washington 

 Territory and Oregon, getting as far south as the Unipqua River, but not reaching the borders of 

 California. On a second trij) from England he again reached the coast early 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'), returning to Monterey, and thence, in October, 1832, went by way of the Sandwich 

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

 a few months later. His letters, giving an account of mucdi of his travels in California and 

 northward, may be found in the second volume of Hooker's "Companion to the 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 knowledge of the botany of the 

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



