GIFT TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 2/1 



A BOTANICAL GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



Through the generosity of j\Ir. and Airs. T. S. Brandegee, of 

 San Diego, the botanical department of the L^niversity of Cah- 

 fornia has been enriched by nearly 125,000 specimens of the flora 

 on the Pacific coast, and by a library of over a thousand volumes. 

 As a result of this munificent gift the facilities for research work 

 at the university are practically doubled, and it now possesses the 

 most complete representation extant of the flora of this region. 



Mr. and Mrs. Brandegee have for years given their time to the 

 scientific study of the plants of western America. During this 

 time their herbarium has steadily grown in size and importance, 

 specimens having been obtained by means of collecting trips, by 

 purchase, and by exchange. Nearly all of the more important 

 sets of plants from the southwestern United States and from 

 Mexico have been acquired, among which may be mentioned most 

 of the types and duplicate types from the Orcutt and Cleveland 

 collections ; a set of Bebb's willows ; nearly all of the Mexican 

 plants distributed by Lemholtz, by Palmer, by Pringle, Parry's 

 " Manzanitas and Chorizanthes," and many others no longer 

 obtainable. Another marked feature of the collection is its rich- 

 ness in sole remaining duplicate types, the originals of which 

 were lost in the recent San Francisco disaster. 



The botanical library comprises, besides five hundred sets of 

 " Zoe," a biological magazine published by Mr. Brandegee, many 

 rare volumes — Lindley's " Botanical Register," in thirty-three vol- 

 umes of colored plates, Hooke's " Icones Plantarium," a complete 

 series of " Linnaea," and many books on Mexican botany. 



REVIEW. 



Handbook of Floivcr Pollinatiou, based upon Hermann Muellers 

 work, " The F crtilllzatlon of Flowers by Insects." By Dr. Paul 

 Knuth, translated by J. R. Ainsworth Davis. Vol. I., Intro- 

 duction and Literature. Pp. 19 + 382. Large 8vo. Illus- 

 trated. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1906. 

 This book, which is gracefully dedicated to the memory of the 



