Excerpt from Botany, Vol. 1: Polypetal?, Gamopetal?
The Act of the Legislature, passed in I 860, authorizing a geological Survey of the State of California, required, among other things, a full and scientific description of its botanical productions. In accordance with this requisition, the material necessary for such a description was assiduously collected by the Geological Corps, whenever and wherever it was possible to carry on this work in addition to the other more pressing duties of the Survey proper. During the years from 1860 to 1864, the botanical collecting was entirely under the charge of, and mostly performed by, Professor W. H. Brewer. It was under his supervision that the bulk of the material was accumulated, the elaboration of which has formed the basis of the present volume. Professor Brewer having left California in 1864, no further! continuous and systematic collecting was attempted by the Survey. Mr. H. N. Bolander was, however, engaged for a few months in 1866 and 1867 in making a more thorough botanical exploration of portions of the Sierra Nevada than had before been possible; and he also made a trip through the Coast Panges, north of the Bay of San Francisco, in which he was assisted from the funds of the Survey, then, as always, entirely inadequate to a vigorous prosecution of the work in all its branches. Dr. J. G. Cooper, Zoological Assistant of the Survey, during a winter spent at Fort Mohave, and on the way thither and back, made important additions to the botanical collections. On the return of Professor Brewer to the East, in 1864, arrangements were commenced for working up the collections, with a view to the publication of a Flora of California, or a systematic description of the plants growing spontaneously over that wide area of between 150,000 and 160,000 square miles.
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