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40_146 Berkeley No. 10,311. Hierochloe macrophylla Thurb. = H. occidentalis Buckl. Papermill Creek, amongst Redwoods. In fl. [flower] Feb. 10. No. 10,311a. Dentaria integrifolia var. californica Jepson. = D. californica Nutt. Papermill Creek, Feb. 10, 1924. - W.W. Eggleston, U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, called today. He said: "Alphonse Wood was a most eccellent teacher. He kept Asa Gray on the jump getting out his school books. Wood was always a little ahead of Gray. Gray resented Wood's texts as an invasion of his field. Wood as a much greater man that in commonly supposed. I am engaged in making a memorial of him. It is planned to take a full volume of the Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium. I have recently secured his journal form his daughter in Syria. She went to Syria to be with her |
40_147 March 25, 1924. brother, a missionary. She married a Syrian physician. The bother is dead. I have had difficulty in following Fremont's trips. The 1846 trip troubled me but there is a Senate document which throws a great deal of light on his movements in that year. Asa Gray's letters to John Torrey reveal the interesting fact that Fremont did not want a good scientific man along on his trips. He should have had Geyer. He utilized men who kenow the country - such as Carson and Walker. Fremont's memoirs goes into politics and neglects his expeditions. I once called on Greene and asked to see his type of Crataegus saligna. Why, I said, with quick appraisement, that's a good species! My em- |
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