A Handbook of the Trees of California.

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1905. First edition. Tall octavo. 86 pp. of text plus 57 full page plates. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Covers reattached. Minor edge chipping to wrappers and upper corner bumped. A very good copy.The last book printed by the venerable printing firm of Edward Bosqui before his factory went up in flames in the great fire of 1906 and judging from its scarcity the majority of the copies of this title went up in smoke as well.In 1890 Eastwood took a vacation to southern California, where she studied the plants of the region. The following year she worked for several months as an assistant in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. She was offered a position as joint Curator with Katherine Brandegee in 1892, and left both Colorado and teaching behind for California and botany (MacFarland x). In 1894, with the retirement of Mrs. Brandegee, Eastwood was advanced to Curator and Head of the Department of Botany, a position she kept until her retirement in 1949, at the age of ninety. Eastwood was credited with saving the Academy's type plant collection after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Opposing curatorial conventions of her era, Eastwood segregated the type specimens from the main collection. This classification system permitted her, upon entering the burning building, to readily retrieve 1500 specimens.