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Morse, S. B., San Francisco: 1 Tamias asiaticus owusendti 

 in llesli. 



Price, W. W., Oakland, Gal.: 2 skins of Tamias asiaticus 

 meter ohahdotes; 1 skin of Scalops toivnsencU; 1 mounted speci- 

 men each of Tamias striatus and Spermophilus triclecemlineatiis. 



Price, R. M., Oakland, Cal. : 2 eggs of Falco sjmrverius, 

 and 2 eggs of Megascojos asio hendirei. 



Stephenson, C. V., Oakland, Cal.: 1 skin of Colaptes ca/er, 



Streator, Clark P., San Francisco: 18 skins of birds from 

 British Columbia. 



Taylor, Bohert, Oakland, Cal. : 10 eggs of Carpodacus mexi- 

 canusfrontcdis. 



Vaslit, F. H., San Francisco: 1 cranium each of Canis 

 Icdrans, Mep)liitis mephitica and Vidpes sp.? 



Winston^ B. C.^ Oakland, Cal.: 1 Didelphys virginiana in 

 flesh. 



Wright, Boht. A. A., S.S. Zealandia: 11 bird skins from 

 Alaska and Siberia. 



Zimmermann, William, San Miguel, Cal. : 1 nest of Icterus 

 bullocki. 



Received by purchase, 19. 



REPORT UPON THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 



By Katharine Brandegee, Curator. 



The cases allotted to the herbarium are all full, and the 

 accessions for the past year, as well as all other plants which 

 maybe received, can only be poisoned and tied in packages 

 until the long hoped for new qjiarters are ready. 



The herbarium has received the following additions dur- 

 ing the 3^ear : 



By donation from : 



Anderson, Dr. C. L., Santa Cruz, Cal.: A valuable fasci- 

 cle of mounted algoi. 



