Biographical Notice 



forest-work of some kind, yet not 

 that of the hunter or the miner. Pres- 

 ently they drew near, and the younger 

 one (King) asked, ' Is your name 

 Brewer ? ' ' Yes,' I replied. ' Be- 

 long to the California Geological Sur- 

 vey ? ' « Yes.' ' Well ; I had a letter 

 of introduction to you from Prof. 

 Brush ; but it was burned up the 

 other day ! ' He went on to say that 

 he had been for three years at the 

 Yale Scientific School (as it was 

 called when he entered it); and that 

 he and his friend had crossed the 

 plains, the interior basin and the 

 Sierra, since leaving New Haven. 

 Of course we began at once an ac- 

 quaintance which soon became, and 

 always remained, a cordial friendship. 

 Many years after, he wrote on the 

 fly-leaf of the second edition of his 

 Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada 

 (the most brilliant and fascinating of 

 books on mountain-climbing), these 

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