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tive species are actually protected, and that time will never come 
until better enforcement and a more wholesome public: respect for 
game laws is secured. ES Be 
' NEWS: . " . 
Prof. W. R. Dudley, late of Cornell, has taken the chair of sys- 
tematic botany at Stanford University. With such men as he and 
Prof. Douglas H. Campbell in charge of the botanical work of 
Stanford University, where botany is taught according to modern 
methods, we may expect to have, in time, a body of resident botanists 
whose entire stock of botanical knowledge is not confined to the pos- 
ession of a limited terminology and a large capacity for discovering 
ne w species that do not exist. 
Miss Alice Eastwood, formerly of Denver, Colo., has succeeded 
Mrs. Katharine Brandegee as curator of the Herbarium of the Cal- 
ifornia Academy of Sciences, and as acting editor of Zor. 
Mr. Oscar T. Baron has temporarily housed. his magnificent col - 
lection of butterflies and humming birds in the California Academy 
of Science building, where he spends much of his time arranging 
_andstudying. He contemplates this fall an extended trip to Ecuador 
and the central Andes for the purpose of collecting butterflies and 
humming birds, his collections in these lines from South and Central 
America and Mexico being among the richest known. 
Mr. W. Otto Emerson, who has been studying art in Europe for 
the past two years, has returned to his home in Haywards, Cal. 
On the rst of February Mr. Charles A. Keeler sailed for New York 
onthe ship Charmer. His latest contributi.n to science, entitled 
_ “Evolution of the Colors of North American Land Birds,” forming 
No. iii of the Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 
has been received too late for review in this issue. 
Nine new species of Ocnerodrifus have lately been described by 
Dr. Gustav Eisen in the Proceedings of the California Academy \ of 
Sciences (the memoir not yet published). Two of the species are 
from the Cape region of Baja California, one from: Sonora, Mexico, 
and the others from Guatemala. Dr. Eisen is now describing the 
Pacific Coast Oligochzeta, and will be glad to receive specimens for 
examination. 
