with delicate cream yellow anthers. The exquisite flower of 

 the Eucalyptus ficifolia and miniata is a brilliant crimson blos- 

 som, and nearly all the Eucalyptus blossoms with their numer- 

 ous stamens, somewhat resemble the night-blooming cereus. 

 on a minute scale, and they are worthy of a prominent place 

 in all Moral displays. 



The Eucalyptus in California has a very rapid growth, 

 and in very few years arrives to a condition of commercial 

 value — I will not say maturity — for, like the Sequoia gigantea, 

 it appears never to cease growing. In all its species it is very 

 prolific, and Mr. Kinney, in "Eucalyptus," says that 'in an 

 ounce of well-sifted blue-gum seeds there will be 10,000 fertile 

 grains." In 1891 I brought from Riverside a plant of the 

 Eucalyptus citriodora — commonly called the "lemon-ver- 

 bena," about the diameter of my thumb and the length of a 

 walking cane, which I planted in rear of my residence in Los 

 Angeles, and today that tree is over one hundred feet in 

 height, seven feet and nine inches in circumference, one foot 

 from the ground, and it is the most striking landmark in St. 

 -lames Park. 



In this Bulletin we present a paper by Mi-. Kinney, treat- 

 ing the economic side of Eucalyptus culture, and a reprint 

 of a valuable article on "Antiseptic Vegetation for Cuba," 

 by A. Campbell Johnston, originally published by this Acad- 

 emy in September, IS!)!). 



The Story of Ab, that captivating romance by Stanley 

 Waterloo, of events during the paleolithic age. when England 

 was a part of the Continent and when the battle for the Sur- 

 vival of the fittest was being waged the most fiercely, has 

 entertained the evening fireside of old and young and the 

 brain and heart of many profoundly learned in Biology, Geol- 

 ogy and Ethnology. It is worthy of a place as well in the 

 library of the most learned as being a most valuable con- 

 tribution to juvenile literature. 



A young lady of Los Angeles, who can lawfully add to 

 her name the College degree of Bachelor of Literature, and 

 who is admired in her social sphere as much for her brilliant 

 intellectual attainments as her charming personality, upon 

 receiving a copy of Ab, returned the following clever acknowl- 

 edgment : 



To thank you for Ab, is my pleasure specific, 



That anthropological tale scientific 



About hirsute men of such vigor magnific : 



They battled with mammoths and serpents terrific, 



At a time when it seemed even beasts insectivic 



AVere not, as they are in our day. insignific. 



This strenuous, hardy folk paleolithic, 



Who jumped, not evolved, to the age neolithic, 



And made themselves homes in great caves stalactitic, 



Or migrated to valleys thro' plains sulphurilie. 



Have left us as records no altars sanctific, 



Such as Druids erected — great piles monolithic. 



Only middens and weapons and utensils pacific. 



Now pray do not nod o'er this verse soporific. 



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