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NAME KELLOGG 650 KELLY to seek the milder climate of the south. He- resumed his studies at the Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston, but before he had completed them was obliged to exchange the coastal climate for that of the interior, and completed his medical training at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, where he re- ceived the degree of M. D. For several years he practised his profession unsuccessfully in various parts of Kentucky, Georgia, and Alabama — unsucessfully, not from lack of skill or opportunity, but because of his unwillingness ever to present a bill for his services. At this time he made the ac- quaintance of Audubon, the famous naturalist, and was induced to accompany him in an ex- ploration of the southwest, as far as Texas, where he was in the fall of the year 1845. From this time he was more interested in natural science than in medicine. After re- visiting his New England home, he traveled in Ohio and other parts of the basin of the Mississippi, and was again in the east when the California gold fever broke out. Moved by a spirit of adventure, and at- tracted, no doubt, by the prospect of oppor- tunities for scientific investigation in a virgin field, he joined a party of gold-seekers, and went to California by way of the straits of Magellan, arriving at Sacramento in August, 1849. He was at this time already an en- thusiastic botanist, and collected plants where- ever the vessel made stops during the voyage. A few years after his arrival in California he took up his residence in San Francisco, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was one of the founders of the California Academy of Sciences, in April, 1853, and from that time until his death his history is closely associated with that of the Academy. The pages of its earlier published Proceedings teem with his descriptions of new plants, more than two hundred in all. His isolation from other workers in the same field, and his lack of facilities, made his results of less value than they might otherwise have been, yet his name is honorably and inseparably connected with the botany of California. In 1867 he was surgeon and botanist to an expedition under the charge of Professor George Davidson, to examine the geography and resources of Alaska, purchased that year by the United States; and during the summer he visited not only the coast of Alaska but some of the neighboring islands. Most of his time in his later years was spent at the rooms of the California Academy, preparing draw- ings of California plants, particularly trees and shrubs. More than four hundred draw- ings had been completed at the time of his death ; a few of these were published, in 1889, with text by Professor Edward Lee Greene, under the title "Illustrations of West American Oaks." In his artistic work he sometimes sacrificed beauty to accuracy, yet much of it exhibited both. To all who knew him. Dr. Kellogg's nobility of character made a strong appeal. Always forceful in his defense of the right, he was nevertheless a man of child-like simplicity, gentleness, and unselfishness. He was dreamy and imaginative, an ardent lover of nature in all her manifestations. Of the many friends who have left on record their impressions of the man, none has failed to mention these traits, unfortunately rare. Professor John Torrey (q. v.), in proposing the name Kelloggia for a rather inconspicuous but very distinct genus of plants from the Sierra Nevada, explained that it was "dedi- cated to Dr. Albert Kellogg, of San Francisco, one of the earliest and most zealous of bota- nists resident in California." Dr. Kellogg's brother, George Kellogg (1812-1901), was the well known inventor whose daughter, Clara Louise Kellogg, was the first American woman to win recognition abroad as an opera singer. John H. Barnhart. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sci- ences, 2d series, 1887, vol. i. Pittonia, 1887, vol. i. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., 1887, vol. iii. Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts. 3rd series, 1S88, toI. XXV. Annals of Botany, 1888, vol. i. Bibliography. Zoe, 1893, vol. iv. Portrait. Silva of North Amer., Sargent, 1895, vol. viii. Kelly, Aloysius Oliver Joseph (1870-1911) A. O. J. Kelly, general practitioner, teacher and pathologist, was a rising authority and a man of unusual personality and ability in the medical profession of Philadelphia during the first decade of the 20th century. Dr. Kelly, the son of Dr. Joseph V. Kelly and Emma Ferguson, was born in Philadel- phia on June 13, 1870, and died there on Feb- ruary 23, 1911, At the age of eighteen he received his A. B. degree from La Salle Col- lege, Philadelphia, and three years later the degree of Master of Arts. He graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. He was a resident in St. Agnes' Hos- pital, Philadelphia, from 1891 to 1892. From 1892 to 1894 he studied in Vienna, Heidel- berg, Dublin and London, meeting Chvostek, Weichselbaum, and Paltauf. This early train- ing was particularly along pathological lines.