[1] American botanist William R. Dudley (1849−1911) joined Stanford that next year and expanded the collection, helping to narrow its focus to the flora of California.
[4]: 70–1 Meanwhile, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed virtually the entirety of the CAS collection, but curator Alice Eastwood still managed to save 1500 specimens.
[6] Following Abrams, Reed C. Rollins became curator, then Richard W. Holm in 1950, Roxana Stinchfield Ferris in 1961, and John Hunter Thomas in 1963, who later became director from 1972-1995.
[1] In the early 1960s, Stanford Provost Frederick E. Terman made a decision to terminate support for the Division of Systematic Biology.
[1] Subsequently, various subcollections were transferred to other institutions in 1968 (algae to the University of California, fungi to the U.S. National Fungus Collections and arctic bryophytes to the New York Botanical Garden).