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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. w. E. B. 



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 Brandegec as curator of the Herbarium of the Cal- 

 ifornia Academy of Sciences, and as acting editor of Zoe. 



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 

 and studying. 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 ist of February Mr. Charles A. Keeler sailed for New York 

 on the 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 Ocnerodrilus 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 Oligochaeta, and will be glad to receive specimens for 

 examination. 



