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



DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES 



The curators and their assistants have been able to devote 

 most of their time to the enlargement, care and study of the 

 collections under their charge. 



The condition and activities of the different departments are 

 fully shown in the reports of the respecti\e curators and need 

 be referred to here only briefly. 



Department of Botany. — The usual activity in this depart- 

 ment has continued. 1die Curator, Miss Eastwood, has been 

 indefatigable in adding to, mounting, labeling, and caring for 

 the collections in her charge. The herbarium now numbers 

 more than 45,000 specimens all mounted, labeled and sys- 

 tematically arranged. The educational activities of the de- 

 partment have continued unabated through the weekly meet- 

 ings of the Botanical Club, the flower exhibit and public lec- 

 tures to clubs and schools. 



Deparlnicnt of Entomology. — Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, Cura- 

 tor of this department, has been very active not only in mount- 

 ing, classifying, and determining the material previously ac- 

 cumulated but he has been remarkably successful in securing 

 donations of large and valuable collections of insects in various 

 groups. He also found time to do considerable field work 

 which added many si)ecimens to the department's collections. 



Mr. Van Duzee has been successful not only in securing 

 many important donations to the department but he has been 

 equally successful in bringing the Museum in close touch with 

 the entomologists of the country, with the result that a number 

 of large and valuable collections some of which have lain in the 

 Museum for many years unworked and unstudied, are now be- 

 ing studied and identified by specialists in the various groups. 



Department of Exhibits. — The work of this department has 

 been under the immediate direction of Mr. Paul J. Fair. The 

 work that has been done in the installation of habitat groups 

 and other exhibition material has been of a high order of ex- 

 cellence. 'I'wo large habitat groups (the San Joaquin Valley 

 Water-Fowl and the California Condor), and five small groups 

 (California Clapper Rail, Linnet, Bush-Tit, Chipmunk and 

 Ground Squirrel) have been completed. Two others (White 

 Pelican and Sharjj-shinned Hawk) are nearly finished, and 

 several others, including the Roosevelt Elk, Fur Seal, Nuttall 



