The President appointed the following Standing Committees, to-wit; 

 Publication — Collins, Davidson, Sp;dding. 

 Finance — -Keese. Spalding, Beeman. 

 Program — -Knight, Watts, Parsons. 



The Committee appointetd to examine the accounts of the Treasurer 

 for the year 1914-1915 reported that the itemized statement of the Treas- 

 urer, presented at the last Annual Meeting of the Academy, was correct 

 in every item, and on motion the Annual Report of the Treasurer and his 

 accounts were approved and confirmed. 



The following communication was read by the Secretary, viz. : 



Vienna, April 30, 1915. 



The Secretary of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 



Sending you my kindest acknowledgments for the amiable notification 

 of my election as an Honorary Member of the Southern California Academy 

 of Sciences, I beg you to be so good as to convey to the Academy my 

 sincerest thanks for the distinction bestowed upoii me. 



Yours very gratefully, 



J. VON Hepperger. 



Upon adjournment the members were entertained at lunch in the 

 University Club by Mr. Keese. 



HoLDKHJOE O. Collins, 



Secretary. 



Botanical Section. 



The Botanical Section of the Southern California Academy of Sci- 

 ences met on Thursday evening, April 22, 1915, at 8 o'clock, in the INlusic 

 Room of the Los Angeles Public Library. 



Dr. Anstruther Davidson, Chairman, presided. The following men 

 were present: Davidson, Payne, Moxley, Life, H. H. Tracy, Munk, Burlew, 

 Beardsley, Sherb, Patton. Lewis, Collins, Knight, Bancroft, Dmimick and 

 Grinnell. 



Dr. Davidson exhi])ited and briefly commented on several new intro- 

 ductions and recent collections, among which were : Lepidium perfoliatum, 

 Githopsis diffusa, Malacothrix clevelandi, Dondia californica, ta.xifolia and 

 suffrutescens, Gnaphalium purpureum, Calochortus Campestris and C. dis- 

 color, the last two described in the January number of the Bulletin. 



Mr. G. L. Moxley showed and spoke of several recent collections : 

 Alisma plantago aquatica, about which there is some confusion ; Calamintha 

 mimuloides, from the Arroyo Seco canyon ; Godetia, Clarkia, and Echin- 

 odorus cordifolins. 



Theodore Payne exhibited a lot of new introductions : Anigozanthus 

 manglesi, from Australia ; Hakea suaveolens, laurina, and Saligna, Amorpha 

 fruticosa, Illicium anisaturn, Colletia cruciata, Corumbium populifolium, 

 Clethra arborea from Maderia ; Agophora, Phillyreea, Lesbania grande, 

 Mahernie, Carissa grandiflora, and a bunch of native wild flowers. 



Prof. A. C. Life exhibited a specimen of Orobanche from San Gabriel 

 canyon, and spoke of a white Oenothera mutation. 



W. Scott Lewis showed some beautifully colored lantern slides of wild 

 flowers. Mr. Stanley F. Patton announced that he was beginning the study 

 of the grasses and sedges. 



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