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were brought in at the end of the summer vacation 
by Mr. A. M. Carpenter, of the Cooper Medical 
College, while from lower altitudes in the same county 
the University Herbarium has been enriched by good 
things obtained by Mrs. M. M. Hardy. Mr. 
Milo 8. Baker, an undergraduate, was employed by the 
Department of Botany to collect extensively in Modoc Co. 
during June and July; and the result of his labors is a large 
invoice containing many varieties and some novelties from 
that vast and little explored part of the State which lies to 
eastward and north-eastward of Mt. Shasta. 
From the city of Los Angeles Dr. Anstruther Davidson 
has made fruitful excursions into the adjacent hilly and 
mountainous districts; and Mrs. Blochman from Santa 
Maria has added her usual quota of plants new to the 
counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. Very early 
in the year Mr. Norman ©. Wilson explored some of the 
deep cafions of northwestern Arizona, in the interests of the 
University Herbarium and Botanic Garden, and at a later date 
crossed the Mohave Desert, in both regions obtaining many 
valuable contributions of living plants, of seeds, and of dried 
specimens. Mr. Wilson has been about the first to gather 
the early spring flora of the deep cafons back of Peach 
Springs, and his large parcels are now undergoing critical 
inspection at the University Herbarium. From the southern 
borders of the State, in San Diego Co., Mr. R. D. Alderson 
has sent us upwards of 300 numbers of herbarium sheets, 
embracing several new plants, besides many seldom collected. 
Mrs R. M. Austin, of Modoc Co., who has long been known 
as having added greatly to the knowledge of the flora of 
northern California, has this year gone beyond our bound- 
aries into southeastern Oregon, and has brought an admirable 
collection of specimens, in duplicate, from a district not 
before explored by any botanist. Her collection has been 
secured for the Herbarium of our University —E. L. G. 
