198 Notes and News. . [ZOE 
Professor Daniel C. Eaton, Yale University, New Haven, 
Conn., desires specimens of Sphagnum, or Bog Mosses, from Cali- 
fornia. They have been found in swamps near Mendocino City; 
at the head of Williams Lake, near Lassen Peak; in wet meadows, 
Mariposa Grove; in bogs near Kings River; Mt. Dana, Mt. 
Brewer, Upper Tuolumne Cajion, Yosemite Valley in the spray 
of Vernal Falls. The following instructions for collecting and 
preserving should be noted. ‘They may be expected anywhere 
in cold bogs: 
‘¢ All the plants for one series of sixty specimens should be 
gathered at one time and place, to avoid the chance of mixing 
two different forms under one number. The plants of dense 
habit of growth should be separated into broad, thin specimens 
while fresh, cleaned of foreign matter, and preserved in botan- 
izing portfolios in the usual manner, faking care not to subject them 
to any severe compression. Just enough pressure to keep them flat ts 
enough. Floating plants, such as the plumose forms of .S. cus- 
pidatum, are best prepared by spreading the specimens on letter- 
paper, as is usual in preserving the more delicate seaweeds. If 
the collector has no means of pressing the specimens, they may 
be gathered in bulk, and, when air-dried, sent in packages to 
Professor Eaton, who can have them softened and spread out for 
drying at some convenient time. Care should be taken to note 
the place and time of each collecting, and the approximate 
height of the station above sea-level.” 
Professor C. H. Gilbert and Professor O. P. Jenkins, of the 
Stanford University, have joined Dr. Barton W. Evermann, of © 
the U. S. Fish Commission, in an expedition to examine the 
headwaters of the Columbia in regard to the fish fauna, the 
obstructions to the ascent of salmon, and the location of a 
salmon hatchery. 
‘Professor W. E. Ritter, of the State University, has spent a 
part of his vacation in making, with the assistance of several 
of his students, a biological reconnoisance of Santa Catalina 
Island. i 
Professor C. H. Tyler-Townsend, of the Agricultural Col- 
lege, Las Cruces, New Mexico, has taken the position of Curator 
of the Scientific Institute at Kingston, Jamaica. 
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