Contents of Volume IX 



Editorial 5- 65 



The Excavations at La Brea Raneho: 

 A New Mariposa Lily: The Canals of Mars: 

 The Hooker 100-inch Reflector: Halley's Comet: 

 The Academy Observatory: "Modern Light on 

 Immortality": La Brea Raneho Fossils. 



Acrolasia tridentata 4nstruther Davidson, M. D. 71 



Bibliography of Southern California Flora, II. .5. B. Parish 57 



Calochortus paludicola Anstruther Davidson, M. D. 53 



Studies of Vertebrate Blood. .. .Louisa Burns, M.S., D.O. 72 



Some Large Trees Anstruther Davidson, M. D. 55 



Southern California Butterflies Fordyce Grinnell, Jr. 68 



The Fossils of Raneho La Brea Prof. James Z. Gilbert 1 1 



Transactions of the Academy Q, 75 



