A Tribute to Alice Eastwood 
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bile and airplane eased her transportation problem. She went on 
notable expeditions up Mount Shasta, to Del Norte County, the 
Santa Lucia Mountains, and interior valleys in California3 be¬ 
sides to Oregon, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Baja Cali¬ 
fornia—returning always with valuable additions to the Academy 
collection. 
The Bay region she explored thoroughly, from “The Flora of 
the Nob Hill Cobblestones” to the wooded slopes of Mount 
Tamalpais. Southern California native plants and trees became 
best known to her through a long-time affiliation with the Rancho 
Santa Ana Botanic Garden founded by Susanna Bixby Bryant in 
memory of John Bixby, her pioneer father. In the Santa Ana 
Canyon, where Miss Eastwood went faithfully in spring and fall 
for councilors’ meetings, she encountered a former student of 
Dr. Jepson from Berkeley, employed as the Garden Botanist. 
This was Tom Howell, who later became her companion on many 
botanizing expeditions, her associate in the publication of Leaf¬ 
lets of Western Botany and, finally, her successor as Curator of 
Botany at the Academy. Miss Eastwood’s long and understand¬ 
ing friendship with this much younger person rivals the most 
satisfactory mother-son relationship. 
The only break in Miss Eastwood’s ceaseless activity at the 
California Academy of Sciences, during her fifty-seven-year ten¬ 
ure of office there, occurred in April 1906—as a result of San 
Francisco’s catastrophic earthquake and fire—and lasted until the 
Academy constructed and moved into permanent headquarters in 
Golden Gate Park. The institution rose like the city, from ruins 
and ashes. Meanwhile Alice Eastwood spent six years in study at 
