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fornia Academy of Natural Sciences ; and we may expect from 

 that institution a full biography. As well as we can make out, 

 Dr. Kellogg emigrated to California thirty-four or thirty-five 

 years ago ; and he resided at San Francisco for all the rest of his 

 life. Upon the first page of the first volume of the Proceedings 

 of that institution, under the date of September 4, 1854, we find 

 that Dr. Kellogg was in the chair, and that he exhibited speci- 

 mens and a drawing of a plant found on the shore of the bay. He 

 drew plants remarkably well and devoted very much time to this 

 work, even to the last. Unfortunately the rude wood cuts which 

 largely illustrate his many papers in the Proceedings of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy give a poor idea of his pictorial skill ; while his 

 want of books and of botanical resources greatly derogated from 

 the value and authority of his determinations and descriptions of 

 the very many plants which he published throughout a long series 

 of years. But he did what he could, in his own way, and has left 

 an indelible mark upon the botany of the Pacific coast. He was 

 a man of the utmost simplicity of life and character, a most amia- 

 ble, gentle and worthy soul. Dr. Torrey dedicated to him the 

 genus Kelloggia, appropriately founded on a modest but quite 

 peculiar Californian plant. 



William Boott died in Boston, May 16th. He was born in 

 that city on the 15th of June; 1805, consequently he had almost 

 reached the age of 82. He was a younger brother of Dr. Francis 

 Boott, of London, but born in Boston, who is still affectionately 

 remembered by a few of the oldest surviving naturalists. William 

 Boott was educated at Exeter Academy and Harvard University ; 

 but his health suffered and he was obliged to leave college before 

 graduation. He traveled in Spain and other parts of the Conti- 

 nent, and studied medicine in Dublin and in Paris ; but he did 

 not complete his medical education. Returning to his native 

 country, he lived a quiet and retired life, never marrying, nor 

 taking any of the positions to which he might have aspired. But 

 his excellent talents wei*e sought by one of the western railway 

 companies, to which for many years he devoted a portion of his 

 time. His tastes and his accomplishments in early and middle 

 life were literary, especially linguistic. Probably he took up 

 botany at the instigation of his brother, and with the desire of 

 helping him to the Carices of this country when Dr. Boott began 

 the study of this vast genus, of which he became the illustrator 

 and the highest authority ; and William Boott, by a kind of 

 noblesse oblige, after his brother's death, specially devoted himself 

 to their study. His only publication is a short Caricological 

 paper. But he studied other groups with great care and critical 

 acumen, especially Jsoetes, Grasses, and some ti'ibes of Cyperaceaz. 

 His health was delicate, but his tall and gaunt form seemed quite 

 unaffected by inclement weather, which he braved to the last, with 

 scant protection. A keen botanist, a most amiable man and trust- 

 worthy friend, he is greatly missed at the Cambridge Herbarium, 

 to which he presented, his botanical library and collections. 



