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16_92 Portland, Oregon entirely "Yellow Fir"." Their label is "Douglas Fir". - E. P. Sheldon has been quite active here botanically in the sense of being a botanical promoter. He has worked up an Oregon Academy of Sciences of which he is President; he is the Director of the Natural History Museum in the City Hall and has been making attempts towards a philosophical arrangement of the material; he collects when he has a chance and stores the stuff away, having now about 10,000 sheets mostly Oregon. He has been here six years. After or just about the |
16_93 July 31, 1906. time of getting out of the University of Minnesota he studied law. Coville gave him a job of collecting plants fo U.S. in Oregon (collected about Ashland among other places), had something to do with both the St. Louis, and Lewis & Clarke Exhibits of Forestry, and is now Secretary of the Oregon Lumber Manufacturer's Association in swell offices on Third and Washington sts. He says MacMillan has gone into the Advertising Business in N.Y. [New York] City. Conway MacMillan was a pretty good botanical advertiser - so he may succeed. The Univ. of Minnesota is badly behind on salaries says Sheldon which is a reason for |
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