The Perennial Adventure 
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ing in inadequately heated and furnished quarters at the Acad¬ 
emy, she could warm herself with summer memories of mountain 
meadows. The October issue of Zoe contained a paean of praise 
for the “Mariposa Lilies of Colorado” commencing: 
“So distinct, so individual are those blossoms that they seem 
to have souls. They speak a wonderfully enticing language to 
draw the wandering insects to their honeyed depths ... the bands 
of color on both divisions of the perianth are bewildering, im¬ 
possible to describe 5 but more than aught else, they cause each 
flower to say proudly, with uplifted head, ‘I am myself; there is 
no other like me.’ 
“To see the different kinds of insects hovering over these 
plants, alighting on the flowers and crawling slowly through the 
viscid hairs of the honey glands is to understand how this race of 
lovely hybrids came to be. Not in vain do these flowers set off 
their beauty and store their sweets.” 
A “biological” magazine, as Zoe professed to be, seemed cus¬ 
tom-made for Alice Eastwood. She enjoyed reading and writing 
essays on a variety of subjects, such as appeared in Zoe during its 
decade of publication. Contents in the bound volumes include 
dissertations by authorities on “The Strange Nesting Place of the 
Bam Owl,” “The Vegetation of ‘Burns/ ” “Ferns of Tamal- 
pais,” “Studies Among Mollusks,” “Notes on the Land Mam¬ 
mals of California,” “The Cape Region of Baja California.” 
The Brandegees tried hard to keep Miss Eastwood in San 
Francisco beyond her allotted time. In April ’92 she was elected 
a resident member of the California Academy of Sciences, and 
assigned responsibility (to help support Zoe) in founding the 
