It is stated in horticultural biography that after collecting seeds in California he disappeared and no one knew what became of him. Dr. C. C. Parry has contributed a very interesting paper to the Overland Monthly, on the early botanical explorers of the Pacific coast, and there states that he met Lobb at Monterey, in 1850, and that Lobb was then collecting seeds for Veitch, and that he went about with him on his excursions. He was then planning a trip to the Big trees, having seen the cones in possession of Dr. Kellogg, who had named the tree Washing-tonia gigantea. He afterwards went, probably to Calaveras, and got seeds, sending a description under the name of Wellingtonia gigantea - a name evidently suggested by Kellogg's proposition to name it after a great military man. General Bid-well saw the tree in 1843, and communicated the fact to Fremont, who seems to have regarded it merely as a big tree yarn. Mr. Lobb died some years subsequently, after becoming reduced in circumstances, and his remains are interred in Lone Mountain Cemetery.