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Soares, at a cost of $90. These will be put on exhibition in the museum 

 from time to time. 



The small collection made on Guadalupe and Cedros islands, the large 

 collection made by Ivan M. Johnston on the expedition to the Gulf of 

 California, and my own collections have not been included. The curator 

 has had too much herbarium work to attend to for any extended collecting. 



There is a great deal of correspondence to be attended to chiefly determin- 

 ing specimens for everyone who sends; the flower show is kept up throughout 

 the year and is one of the most popular features of the museum; the evening 

 class of the gardeners is held weekly and the Botanical Club has weekly 

 meetings or excursions. Many botanical talks have been given to different 

 clubs and thereby the influence of the Academy has been extended along 

 popular lines. 



Mrs. Wilkens has looked after keeping the flower show in order and clean 

 and Mrs. G. H. Phelps has been most efficient in mounting the specimens, in 

 putting them into their proper places and in making the inventory. In order 

 to be able to do any real scientific work I need an assistant who knows some- 

 thing about botany so that some of the work can be taken from me. 



Alice Eastwood, Curator. 



Department of Entomology 



The year 1922 was one of steady progress in the Department of Entomology, 

 although this progress was somewhat limited by the fact that for most of the 

 year the curator had to work single handed. So large a proportion of the 

 funds available in 1922 was required for the purchase of new cases, which 

 were absolutely essential to the development of the collection, that little was 

 left with which to employ an assistant. Thus the work of mounting and 

 labeling the large number of specimens added during the summer had to be 

 done entirely by the curator, which left very little time for working up the 

 material secured. However, in spite of this handicap, good progress was made 

 in the determination and arrangement of the material secured by the Gulf of 

 California Expedition of 1921, and in the general collection of insects. Such 

 systematic work as could be done was largely devoted to the study and ar- 

 rangement of the leaf hoppers and other groups of the Hemiptera. Work on 

 this order is being pushed and it is hoped that another year will see the com- 

 pletion of the determination and arrangement of all Academy material in this 

 order. In the Coleoptera, or beetles, Dr. F. E. Blaisdell has worked tirelessly 

 and efficiently in the study of the Academy material. First, he completed 

 work on the Tenebrionidas of the Gulf Expedition, which are now in perfect 

 order, and his report on which now awaits publication, and later he has de- 

 termined many uncertain forms in all families of the beetles which have 

 recently been added to the collection. Dr. F. E. Cole completed his work on 

 the Bombyllidae of the Gulf Expedition and his report on these bee-flies is 

 ready for publication. He has also done much toward the determination of 

 other dipterous insects in the Academy collection. Material in other orders of 

 insects has been placed in the hands of specialists and work on them is well 

 under way. 



