Foreword ....................................................... vi
Editors' Notes .................................................. x
Preface ......................................................... 1
Introduction .................................................... 3
Chapter 1 Beginnings — Familial, Educational, and Botanical ... 5
Chapter 2 At the Bottom of the Prep School Pole .............. 11
Chapter 3 California, the Grand Canyon, and a Cross-Country
Expedition ......................................... 15
Chapter 4 Life as a Harvard Freshman ......................... 21
Chapter 5 Exploring Mount Desert Island with Gray's Manual ... 25
Chapter 6 Botany Trumps Law for the Harvard Sophomore ........ 29
Chapter 7 Rock Climbing, Maine Mosses, and the Harvard Glee
Club ............................................... 33
Chapter 8 Weston, Fernald, and Plant Systematics .............. 35
Chapter 9 Graduate School, Immersion in Antennaria, Europe,
and a Whirlwind Romance ............................ 39
Chapter 10 From Student to Professor .......................... 45
Chapter 11 Percy Saunders and Other Colgate Adventures ........ 49
Chapter 12 Transplanting the Family to California ............. 55
Chapter 13 The Berkeley Genetics Department ................... 57
Chapter 14 Asteraceae Research with Ernest Babcock ............ 61
Chapter 15 A Switch to Research on Native Plants of
California ......................................... 63
Chapter 16 Adventures with Carl Epling and Edgar Anderson ..... 67
Chapter 17 Theodosius Dobzhansky .............................. 71
Chapter 18 The 1946 Jesup Lectures via the Missouri
Botanical Garden ................................... 77
Chapter 19 Politics and Polyploidy at Davis ................... 81
Chapter 20 In Search of Dactylis in the Mediterranean ......... 87
Chapter 21 Geneticists in Japan and Transitions at Davis ...... 97
Chapter 22 Mountaineering with Bob ........................... 103
Chapter 23 Leading the Charge for Plant Preservation ......... 109
Chapter 24 A New Direction in Research Leads to Edinburgh,
Paris, and Stockholm .............................. 117
Chapter 25 Hypotheses About Evolution Above the Species
Level ............................................. 121
Chapter 26 The Effect of Molecular Knowledge on
Classification and Evolution ...................... 127
Chapter 27 My Relationships with Campus Development .......... 131
Chapter 28 Doby at Davis ..................................... 135
Chapter 29 Around the World in Five Springtimes .............. 139
Chapter 30 Revisiting Antennaria ............................. 153
Chapter 31 A Working Retirement .............................. 157
Chapter 32 New York, The Rockefeller University, and
the Nature of Molecules with Development .......... 159
Chapter 33 Final Activities .................................. 161
Index except Flora and Fauna .................................. 163
Index of Flora and Fauna ...................................... 169
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