In 1872 , the California Pharmaceutical Society was formed and in the same year , the Society appointed Behr professor of botany and he was required to organise excursions " into the country on alternate weeks for the purpose of collecting and studying indigenous plants . " Also formed in the same year was the Bohemian Club and in its second year , Behr became a member . In 1884 he found time to write a paper '' Synopsis of the genera of vascular plants in the vicinity of San Francisco , with an attempt to arrange them according to evolutionary principles '' writing " In looking from any stand-point , at the variety of organic forms , the theory of evolution will be the most successful in explaining the resemblances and differences of organized life . " In 1891 and 1896 , Behr published two essays entitled '' Botanical Reminiscences '' in which he describes the changes in the vegetation of San Francisco from 1850 . The California Academy of Sciences elected Behr to the position of vice-president in 1895 and three years later he was made curator of entomology . He later donated his large collection of Lepidoptera to the Academy but it was destroyed in the earthquake of 1906 . He authored a number of books including '' The Plants of the Vicinity of San Francisco '' and a book of verse , '' The Hoot of the Owl '' . Behr Avenue in San Francisco is named after him
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
Hans Hermann Behr