29_2
Berkeley
no. 28 (pages 1-22, to end, the Yosemite Trip with the "phytojogs.") and in this book, no. 29, pages 22 to [?]. The numbers all come out straight except that beyond 5719 I do not know whether numbers were used or not. So I leave a few numbers blank, up to 5730 to begin the Redwood City trip. At the time of making my Mohave trip I still felt that the book would turn up again in some way - that I might have brought it home and mislaid it, so I guessed the matter of the numbers which had been used in the missing book and began with 5700. But
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29_3
June 1914
on returning I find the numbers as high as 5719 had been used and so I renumber the Sonoma and Mohave collection from no. 5800 in order to prevent any errors or confusion. This lengthy note is necessary lets sheets turn up with identical nos. & need adjustment [?]. I have never before lost permanently a field book and I find it very mischievous and troublesome - but no it is essentially straigthened out and the numbers are correctly placed.
[Book recovered - Sept. 1914] -Brandegee, K. Her collections in El Dorado Co. on which were based various new species, were collected most probably in the neighborhood of Layne's Ranch. See label on Callitriche palustris.
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