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five of the Pacific Railroad reports. WILLIAM P. BLAKE made collections in 
southern California described by TORREY in the same volume as the above. 
J- S: Newberry collected under Lieufenants WILLIAMSON and ABBOTT, mostly 
in Oregon and northern California. Over five hundred species were reported 
by him from this region. He also went with Lieutenant JONES in 1857—58 
along the Colorado River and through northern Arizona. THOMAS ANTISELL 
‘ was connected with the party of Lieutenant PARK and collected in 1854 
between Salt Lake and the Sacramento River. Passing with a mere mention 
the labors of J. F. HAMMOND, CHARLES WRIGHT, AMOS B. EAToNn, THOMAS 
BRIDGES and L. J. XANTUS DE VESEY we come to the work done by the 
California State Geological Survey organized by J. D. WHITNEY in 1860. In 
connection with this survey were WırLıaMm H. BREWER, who collected from 
1860 to 1864, FRANCISCO GUIRADO in 1860 and 1861, EDWARD PALMER in 
1861, HENRY N. BOLANDER 1863 and for twelve years subsequent, GEORGE 
H. Horn, WirLıam HILLEBRAND of Honolulu and V. RarTan. The botanic 
results appeared in two volumes issued by the Geological Survey of 
California. The first volume by W. H. BREWER, SERENO WATSON and 
ASA GRAY appeared in 1876, the second volume by SERENO WATSON in 1880. 
Besides the above named explorers, the west coast of the United States was 
visited by HORACE MANN, JOHN TORREY, ASA GRAY, ]. D. HOOKER, ALPHONSO 
WooD and GEORGE L. GOODALE. The names also of C. L. PARRY, EDWARD 
PALMER, C. G. PRINGLE, J. T. ROTHROCK and W. K. SUKSDORF are prominently 
identified with the botany of the Pacific Coast. In 1885 C. R. ORCUTT 
published a Flora of Southern and Lower California. J. G. LEMMON, MRS. 
LEMMoN, ABBoTT KinNEY and other botanists were connected with the pu 
lication of the First Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry 
for the years 1885—86 (Sacramento 1886), the Second Biennial Report for 
the years 1887—88 (Sacramento 1888), and the Third Biennial ‚Report for the 
years 1889—go (Sacramento 1890) in which is set forth a detailed account of 
the condition of the forests and a botanic description of the principal forest 
trees. J. G. LEMMoN has also printed a work entitled Handbook of West- 
American Cone-Bearers (third edition 1895), also in pamphlet form, Oaks of 
Pacific Slope (1902). 
Numerous articles on the flora of the mai 
California have been published in Erythea, Zo&, Pittonia, Garden and Forest, 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and Botanical Gazette. The er 
botanists have been prominently identified with the botany of California = 
the articles in the above mentioned journals have been largely contributed by 
them. E. L. GREENE, W. L. Jepson, ALICE EASTWOOD, W.R. De | 
S. B. ParısH, CARL PurDy, W. A. Cannon, F. V. COVILLE, 7 rn 
DEGEE and (Mrs) KATHERINE BRANDEGEE. Chronologically Se —_ 
following books and papers deal with Californian phytogeogr apby-: AM ER 
Of West American Oaks, by EDWARD L. GREENE appeared in ER io 
Franciscana by the same botanist, as its title page suggests, is an attemp 
nland and the coast islands of 
