40 SEA AfOSSSS. 



Harvey speaks of him, as he know lum Lite in 

 life, as one of the best preserved jvomcns of a 

 green old age, thai he ever knew, still enthusiastic 

 in his studies ; and with his pbnts before him, re- 

 < .illing with great vividness, the stirring and often ad- 

 venturous scenes which were associated u-ith tli< ir 

 tollection. Many of them more than half a century 

 gone. Han-ey uTites : *• It was his entliusixsm which 

 firil possessed me with a desire to explore the 

 American shores, a desire which has followed mc 

 through life." 



In 1835, Beechy nude his exploring expedition 

 into the North l^aciflc and brought home many plants, 

 an account of which was published in 1833. In July, 

 1840, a Russian exploring expedition touched the 

 California coast, and carried away sc\'cral 

 plants, some of which were described an<l fij^irccl by 

 Kuprecht, in St. Pelcrsburgh, in 1852. Sub ..ily 



Dr. Coulter collected in Monterey Bay. 



"n^'* first collector of California Algx, whose col- 

 1lMi<m>> fell into the hands of botanists subsequently 

 to the tin^ ' the great emigration to that land in 

 Mf. A. IX Fr New York city. His 



collections were made about 1850. They attracned 

 some attention in New York as well as in San 

 Francisco. The plants in this collection are the ones 



