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TAYLOR, Alexander Smith, ethnologist, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 16 April, 1817 ; died near Santa Barbara, California, 27 July, 1876. He received a limited education, left Charleston in 1837, travelled for several years in the West Indies and in India and China, went to California from Hong Kong in 1848, and lived at Monterey till 1860, where he was clerk of the United States district court in 1853, and afterward on a ranch near Santa Barbara. He has written for magazines and newspapers articles on the Indian races, the history of California, and natural history. He published a translation of the diary of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, under the title of "The First Voyage to the Coast of California" (San Francisco, 1853) ; a "History of Grasshoppers and Locusts of America" in the "Report" of the Smithsonian institution for 1858; "The Indianology of California" in the "California Farmer" (1860-'4) ; and "Bibliographia Californica" in the Sacramento "Union" (1863-'6).
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