Dean W. Taylor's investigation of California Geological Survey Specimens

Since Dean Taylor passed away in 2020, these data are to be considered archived and will not be regularly updated.

Please note that this database used to display specimens from CAS, DS, RSA and POM. However, since the creation of CCH2, the accession numbers of these collections have changed to barcodes. As a result, the accession in Dean's database no longer link to specimens. In the future, Dean's database will be updated to link his notes to the corrected CCH2 accession numbers for these records.

Henry Bolander
photo of party from Up and Down
Collection number: 2692
Current name: Eucephalus breweri (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom
Field Book name: Chrysopsis Breweri Gray
Field Book data: "p. 379 "Brewer""
Notes (Field Book): Composite. Comon in the sierra at 4-8000'
Collector: William H. Brewer
Collection date: 1864
Taylor notes: Collections 2686 onwards appear on p. 378 of field book with the heading Bolander, but the heading changes to Brewer on p. 379 2686 seq., indicating that since Bolander was not present in the Sierra prior to this time, the collections are Brewer's
Accession numbers: UC31105 GH4829 US323297
State: CA
County: Alpine
Camp number:
Place: Ebbett's Pass
Location description: Ebbett's Pass region, watershed of East Fork Carson River near site of Silver Mountain townsite [ attributed to 'Scandinavian Canyon, perhaps IXL Canyon of present day maps]
Elevation (estimated): 8900 ft
Coordinates: 38.62 -119.78
Notes: "The protologue reads "Near Sonora Pass and Ebbett's pass in the Sierra Nevada, common at the elevation of 4,000 to 8,000 feet". The GH4829 is designated as the holotype J. C. Semple, 1985. The syntypes are not in the GH catalogue"
Curatorial notes:
Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 542. 1866.

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