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forth in the reports of the respective curators and neeci be 

 referred to here only briefly. 



The Department of Entomology did considerable field work. 

 The curator, Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, spent four weeks in 

 Shasta and Siskiyou counties, California, and Jackson County, 

 Oregon, during which important collections were obtained. 

 He also made numerous shorter collecting trips to the vicinity 

 of Los Banos, Sacramento, Mt. St. Helena, Cazadero, and 

 elsewhere. 



The Department of Paleontology. — Although Dr. Dicker- 

 son, the curator of this department, has been on leave most 

 of the year, he nevertheless did some work on the Petaluma, 

 Sonoma and Tomales quadrangles wliich added materially to 

 our knowledge of those regions and to the Academy's collec- 

 tions of fossils. During the time the curator has been on 

 leave he has had opportunity to do some collecting for the 

 Academy. 



Department of Botany. — Miss Eastwood, the curator of 

 this department, lias continued with her characteristic energy 

 and industry to build up and care for the Herbarium which 

 now contains more than .50.000 specimens all properly identi- 

 fied and authenticated, besides many specimens of fungi not 

 yet fully determined. Many important additions to the 

 Herbarium have been made during the year as set forth in 

 detail in the curator's report. 



Department of Herpetology. — The curator and assistant 

 curator have been active in enlarging, caring for, and study- 

 ing the collections of this department. Two important col- 

 lecting trips were made, one in March to the Channel Islands, 

 the other in June and July through northern California and 

 southern Oregon, which added more than 1000 specimens to 

 the collections. The total accessions in the year number 1724, 

 and the total number in the department now exceeds 37,000. 



Department of Ornithology. — Such field work as was done 

 in the interest of this department was chiefly in rhe section 

 of oology, to which very little attention has hitherto been 

 given. The total number of specimens added to the Academy's 

 collection of nests and eggs during the year exceeds 1600, 

 some of them rare and of unusual interest. During the nest- 



