Dr. Albert Kellogg may be said to be the first resident botanist of the Pacific slope to make much of a mark in the study of the flora of that region. A very large number were first described and named by him. A number of species bear his name, and one genus allied to the Galium, named Kelloggia in his honor. His ability to distinguish new species from those already described was remarkable, considering how limited must have been his herbarium for comparison, and the scant supply of botanical literature at his command. It is not wonderful that many of his new species proved old ones - it is the more wonderful that so many proved distinct. He died at Alameda, California, on the 31st of March, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, continuing to the last to work on the herbarium of the Californian academy.