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Alameda 4/7. 1896 Dear John I had mentally appropriated last Monday to the pleasurable recreation of making a visit to
your household, but the weather said hay. so I kept count in the house, that being a safe comfortable refuge. And now, if
external conditions will coexist with internal inclination, you will find me on the train of next Monday morning: if so I
will telepgraph at 16 K St. Station. Meantime, by virtue of my August position aas chairman of the section of Indigenous botany
half a dozen other tact appendages, of the Med. Soc. of the State of Cal. - Officer more imposing in title than in fact -
I have written a report for the annual meeting to be held in Los Angeles on 18th prox. entitled. On the Origin Distribution
of Forest Trees of the Pacific Coast, wherein I have indulged in some profound remarks which bear some resemblance to a hyperbolic
curve, which is constantly tending towrad a central point without ever getting there. In this connexion I have wrought in
your gigantean name, to corroborate a theory, have taken your statement as published in the Proc. of the Am. Assoc. 1870.
of the extent lo- 02079