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Gymnospermous and Cryptogamic host-plants; animal hosts, and 
addenda, etc., with Generic index, concludes this work, the value of 
which to systematic mycologists is in no danger of being overes- 
timated. H. W. H. 
Sournal of Mycology, vol. vi, No. 4, Washington, 1891. This 
number completes the volume. It contains Treatment of Pear 
Leaf-blight and Scab in the Orchard by B. T. Galloway and D. G. 
Fairchild; The Peach Rosette, with plates vili—xili, by Erwin F. 
Smith; Tuberculosis of the Olive, with plates xiv, xv, by Newton 
B. Pierce; Recent Investigations of Smut Fungi and Smut Diseases _ 
by Dr. Oskar Brefeld, translated by Erwin F. Smith; Ripe Rot of 
Grapes and Apples (with plate xvi), by Effie A. Southworth; 
Anthracnose of Cotton (with plates xvii, xviii), by George F. At- 
kinson; Mycological Notes, II, by George Massee; Index to North 
American Mycological Literature, by David G. Fairchild. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. May 4, r8g9r. President 
Harkness in the chair. 
Donations to the museum were reported from Frank H. Vaslit, 
B. C. Winston, Walter E. Bryant, J. A. Barr, G. P. Rixford, H. 
H. Behr, Robert Moses, H. S. Nichols, William A. Robbins and 
L. Belding. 
The Librarian reported 373 additions to the library. 
Mr. G. P. Rixford read a paper on Indian carvings at Swansea, 
Inyo County, and presented a series of photographs of the carvings. 
Mr. E. J. Molera announced the recent death of General Carlos 
Ibafiez, Count of Mulhacen, President of the International Geodet- 
ical and Statistical Societies, and President of the International 
Board of Weights and Measures, and read a notice of his life and 
works. 
Professor Carl Lumholtz read a paper on his recent explorations 
— in Mexico, giving his experience and discoveries in the hitherto un- 
explored Sierra Madre country. 
| A vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Lumholtz for his interest- 
ing paper. 
The President made a few remarks concerning the death of Pro- 
