252 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



The Botanical Club holds weekly meetings. These are conducted by the 

 curator and take the form of popular talks and excursions in the park and 

 the country. The Club is growing constantly without advertisement of any 

 kind and has done much to make the California Academy of Sciences a 

 popular institution. Besides this Club, the curator also conducts once a 

 week an evening class of the young gardeners in the park who desire a 

 scientific knowledge of the plants they cultivate. I have had to correctly 

 name a great many species in the park, and sometimes it is very difficult 

 as we have not the books most needed. 



The exhibition of flowers from the park and the country kept up in the 

 vestibule of the Museum has taken some time each week, but it fills a 

 popular want. Each species is labelled with scientific name, common name, 

 if one exists, and the native country. 



It is hoped in the coming year to have the principal genera of shrubs 

 in the park arranged in scientific sequence around the court of the Museum 

 with labels giving not only the names and native countries, but also the 

 families under which they are classified. If there is room I plan also a bed 

 of the plants mentioned in the Bible and another of the plants mentioned 

 in Shakespeare's writings. It may not be possible to obtain all, but what- 

 ever can be secured will be of interest and may lead to the final complete- 

 ness. 



During a six weeks' leave of absense on a trip to Colorado, the curator 

 made large collections which will be classified elsewhere in the report. A 

 trip was also made to Ventura and Santa Barbara in the spring and in 

 August a trip to Southern California to attend the Pacific Coast Branch of 

 the American Association meeting resulted in the collection of a great 

 many exotics in Southern California. 



Merriam, Dr. C. Hart, Washington, D. C. : A collection of 486 specimens 

 of Atlantic Coast mosses, comprising 65 genera, 181 species. Gift. 

 Also a cross section of a large tree of C eanothus thyrsiflorus measur- 

 ing 14 inches in diameter, and two cross sections of other trees of same 

 species, also one of Rhamnus californica. 



U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. : Eighty-one specimens of 

 Cryptogams in exchange. 



The California Botanical Club has purchased a collection of 385 specimens 

 collected in California and Oregon by A. A. Heller in 1916, also a col- 

 lection of 397 specimens collected in Mexico by the late Dr. Edward 

 Palmer. 



George L. Moxley has sent on 50 from the vicinity of Los Angeles for de- 

 termination. 



Fordyce Grinnell, Sr., has given 52 from the Sierra Madre mountains, to 

 be named. 



Miss Anna Junkans has sent 82 from Trinity County as a gift and for 

 determination. 



G. P. Rixford has contributed Z7, chiefly exotics. 



Mr. Charles E. Miller: Thirty-five sheets of specimens from Santa Rosa 

 and Santa Cruz Island, also six from near Cisco. 



