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16_88 Portland, Oregon has a wife - not a bad-looking woman, in fact rather comely - a daughter of 17, etc I did not ask about his family but so much I saw - a boy of 12, doubtless of the family. He thinks Wm Hooker a greater botanist than Joseph; the DeCandollean sequence far preferable to the Englerian, and regrets Engler's [sinking] of "Apetalae", "Polypetalae" etc! It is too bad to see him so miserably poor. He came into Portland with me and I insisted on his taking lunch with me be he would allow only a few simple things |
16_89 July 31, 1906. to be ordered for him. Went to the Oregon Historical Society's rooms. The Curator is George H. Himes. He showed me a deal of interesting relics of early Oregon, also mss [manuscripts] and books. He has the mss journal of Scouler! complete! Has published portions of it in the Oregon Historical Society's Bulletins. Dr. Cardwell, Oregonian Bldg, has a great collection of trees in his residence grounds (Portland). Called on him. He has for 20 yrs. been President of the State Horticultural Society. He gave me the name of his friend A. H. Carson, Commissioner of |
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