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Connecticut, in preparation for a medical career. Ill health forced him to return to the family farm where he spent time exploring the nearby woods and collecting herbs. He never fully recovered his health but eventually moved to the South in hopes that the milder climate would help. He studied medicine at the
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Kellogg wrote numerous papers on
California plants and published them in the official Academy publications as well as local newspapers and magazines. He was an accomplished artist and many of his papers were accompanied by his illustrations. Kellogg's publications resulted in the initial descriptions
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At a meeting on 1 August 1853, Kellogg proposed "that we highly approve of the aid of females in every department of natural history, and that we earnestly invite their cooperation." His motion was approved and the academy became one of the first institutions in the world to recognize and encourage
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Albert
Kellogg was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, on December 6, 1813, the son of Isaac and Aurilla Barney, prosperous farmers with a long family history in New England. After receiving a basic education in the local village schools, Kellogg was placed with a prominent physician in Middletown,
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California Academy of Sciences. Their stated goal was the promotion of natural science in the new state of California. Kellogg was devoted to the organization from its beginning and served in various administrative roles including
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Connecticut Mining and Trading Company in Sacramento and the nearby mining regions for the next three or four years. He later settled in San Francisco where he opened a pharmacy and practiced medicine to a limited extent. These endeavors were not very successful, for as one
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Kentucky, Georgia, and Alabama, while taking every opportunity to explore the vegetation of the region and collect botanical specimens. On one of his journeys, in 1845, he traveled as far as San Antonio, Texas. After returning to New England in 1848, he moved to
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biographer noted, he "was almost too much engrossed with hunting and working over new plants to patiently wait upon customers." Kellogg focused most of his time and energy on his botanical interests. In 1852, he undertook the first detailed and systematic study of the
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vice-president, librarian, curator, and museum director. He was the academy's first curator of botany and enthusiastically encouraged members and visitors to bring him plant specimens for identification and study.
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of several plant genera and 215 species. In 1882, he published "The Forest Trees of
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