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Dr. H. M. Hall, 215 miscellaneous specimens, many among them of 

 genera on which he specializes. Eric Walther continues to add to 

 the collection of exotics cultivated in California and has brought 692 

 specimens to the collection. His zeal in seeking new plants and in 

 adding better and more complete specimens to what we already have is 

 unbounded. It is through this earnest and capable gardener that the 

 labelling of the trees and shrubs in Golden Gate Park is being gradu- 

 ally accomplished. It is expected before long that a list of the trees 

 and shrubs can be ready for publication with a map of the park on 

 which the position of the labelled specimens is indicated. 



Miss Anna Head collected a large number of plants in Mendocino 

 County and the Feather River region, amounting to about 550 speci- 

 mens, some of them duplicates. 



Mrs. E. C. Sutliffe has been indefatigable in collecting and identifying 

 the Hepaticae, and with the assistance of Mrs. Marian L. Campbell, has 

 collected 61 species, chiefly in Marin and Plumas counties, which are 

 beautifully prepared and have been sent for verification to Dr. Evans, 

 who is an authority on this group. 



The curator made several week-end trips to type localities not far 

 from San Francisco in search of certain species, but with few excep- 

 tions the search was unsuccessful because the places were occupied by 

 habitations and the wild land had become cultivated fields. Along the 

 roadsides the ground was monopolized by immigrant plants which had 

 crowded out the natives. One week-end trip was taken to Willows, 

 Glenn County, where a small collection was made and the rare 

 Pilularica americana found in an irrigating ditch. In July I was the 

 guest of Mr. Wm. F. Herrin on a trip by automobile through Mendocino, 

 Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, and Siskiyou counties, and later to Medicine 

 Lake, a small sheet of water in Siskiyou County, in a country of 

 obsidian and lava. Altogether the curator's collections amounted to 

 about 1,107 specimens. 



Lewis Allen, one of the gardeners in the Park, has taken some fine 

 photographs of trees and shrubs, chiefly Eucalypti, to show the habit and 

 character of the bark, and has donated 42 to be added to the mounted 

 specimens in the herbarium. J. August Kusche always has the herbarium 

 in mind when collecting insects and has given 36 specimens of lichens 

 and 29 mosses, from the Hawaiian Islands, a small unnamed collection 

 from the Solomon Islands, and a collection made in winter at Needles 

 on the Colorado River. 



The flower exhibit at the entrance of the Museum continues to be a 

 popular feature and is continuously kept up during the year. Several thou- 

 sand species of native and exotic plants are exhibited during the year, 

 each labelled plainly with scientific name, popular name if there is one, 

 and the country or locality where the plant is native. Without the care 

 of Mrs. Johanna Wilkens in keeping the shelves and receptacles clean, 

 removing the old flowers and installing the fresh ones, it would not be 

 possible to make this exhibition a success. 



