Jepson Field Book volume 21 page 76 | University and Jepson Herbaria Archives, University of California, Berkeley
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Jepson Field Book volume 21 page 76
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Berkeley to Moraga - Botanizing out Telegraph Canon today I was overtaken by a queer old seedy caricature, something of a character, but past seedy. He looked at a Mimulus I was putting in my press and said thus: "That wild thing? Yes it's fine. A botanist! Forsooth, they don't have no respect for a botanist in California. They don't know anything about him. He'd starve to death for what h'd tell them. And the young men of California - they don't know nothing. They don't care. And they don't care. They teach them there at the University to be horse-doctors and dentists ::::::::: May 22, 1910. and so on. Why in the olden times the barber pulled the teeth. THe doctors don't know anything. So I tell you. They ought to know all the plants but they don't. A botanist as I say would starve, unless he had a position in the University. And then he'd get his wage! But they might let him go in 2 or 3 months. And anyway they'd be bothering him to death with questions. Yes, you are right young man, that is a pretty hill. It is as pretty a hill as there is in California. Yes, it is as you say a N. E. slope. On the S. W. slope it burns
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