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69_24 hit a gong and thus develop certain ideas as to color suggested by the tone. John Muir, who often described himself as a botanist, often criticized details in Keith's painting-trees, grass, rocks and so on. It seems that at a very early day, Muir, Keith and some others from the floor of Yosemite went on a trip to the region about Mt. Lyell where Keith painted the forests and rivers. Probably all of Keith's paintings of the Coast Live Oak were done in Berkeley. - Feb. 2, 1946. cont. from p. 23. Some men have a dignity that is stiff or sour or forbidding. Greene was quite different. He had, he radiated a gracious dignity. History of botanical exploration in Alaska and Yukon territories from the time of their discovery to 1940. Eric Hulten. Botaniska Notizer: 1940: 289. |
69_25 Brewer, W.H. Every one with whom I have talked who knew Brewer spoke of the wide range of his learning, the remarkable character of his scholarly knowledge. But he was no research man. He familiarized himself with the learning of past times, mastered it and thus became a finished scholar. cf. Botanists of Cal. and w. Am. 2:215-219. He organized for his own use what other men did. Gilman, M. French. Biography by P.A. Munz. Madrono, 8:27. 1945. Spencer, Mary Fiske. Madrono, 6:82. Biography by Frederick Grover. Ramalay, Francis, biography. Madrono, 6:260. He collected in Cal. near Sacramento. The botanical collections of Chamisso and Esschscholtz in California. Alice Eastwood. Lflts. W. Bot. 4:17. Concerning David Douglas. by J.T. Howell, Lflts. W. Bot. 3:166. |
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