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large number of species and several new genera to those already 
known, enabling us now to judge with great certainty as regards the 
geographical distribution of the plants and their connection and ‘de- 
scent from neighboring geographical plant districts. | New species 
will of course after this be added to those already described and 
enumerated, but they will be comparatively few, and the flora of Baja 
California can now besaid to be very completely and comprehensibly 
known, Of birds and mammals the collections brought home are 
large and good, and descriptions of some thirteen new rodents will 
soon be published by W. E. Bryant. They are mostly the results 
of his trapping during last year’s expedition to the Cape region, 
or the southern extremity of the peninsula, remarkable for’ its high 
motntains, beautiful and luxuriant vegetation, tropical climate and 
isolated position. 
«The fresh water fishes collected there are in the hands: of Prof. 
Gilbert, of the Stanford University. The collection of reptiles and 
batrachians is good and when described will undoubtedly contain 
much of general interest. A large collection of arachnids from the 
_ Cape region, collected during the late expedition, is now in the care 
of Prof. George Marx, of Washington, the acknowledged authority 
on American spiders. He designates the collection as valuable and 
interesting. His paper will be well illustrated. A collection of 
Colembolas and Thysanuras is being worked up by Prof. Harold 
Schott, a well-known European specialist, who has already described 
anumber of new Colembolas from Upper California, and who has since 
received a number of new forms both from Upper and Baja California, all 
of which are to be embodied in one general paper,on the Colembolas 
and Thysanuras of the Pacific Coast. Dr. Otto Stoll, of Zurich, 
whose beautiful work on acarides in the Biologia Centralo Americana 
is generally admired, will describe a small collection of acarides, prin- 
cipally from the Cape region. The collection of diptera from Baja 
California is not large, but it may be counted upon to contain much 
of interest. It will be described by C. H. Tyler Townsend, a well- 
known specialist of this class of insects. — 
The collection of orthoptera has been forwarded to Lawrence 
Bruner, and a valuable paper from his hand is expected, though his 
_ preliminary opinion on the collection has not yet reached us. The 
coleoptera were well represented with some 500 species, principally 
