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sent to Science (Oct. 4, 1940). Blankinship published very little. By right more should have been expected from him. Said Isaac Newton of a young friend who had died: "Had Cotes lived we had known something." If Blankinship's life had been less surrounded by hardships and adversity-burdens and handicaps which warped his mental outlook-botany would I think have profited more from his labors. - Dec. 30, 1942. He died at Decoto on July 2, 1938.
Audubon in California. Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science. Conducted by G.W. Featherstonhaugh. Vol. 1. Philadelphia. (This item taken
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from Argosy Book Stores Cat. No. 211. (1943).
-Bidwell, John. Life in Cal., First Emigrant Train to Cal.; Ranch and Mission Days in Cal. Century Mag., vol. 41. _n. ser. vol. 19). 1890-1891.
-Heller, A.A. Apparently he knew little about or never consulted as a matter of course U.S. topographic maps. cf. note in Men and Manners, vol. 14, p. 114.
-W.H. Davis, Sixty years in Cal. There is a list of ship arrivals on the coast from a very early day down through the mission period.
-Langsdorf's narrative of the Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806. Translated by Thos. C. Russell. 1927.
-Alfred Robinson. Life in California. 1829-1846.
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