504 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
THE Royat Society of London has awarded recently the following medals 
to botanists: A Royal medal to Dr. D. H. Scorr for his investigations and dis- 
coveries in connection with the structure and relationship of fossil plants; the 
Darwin medal to Professor Huco DEVrigs on account of the significance and 
extent of his experimental investigation in heredity and variation. 
THE FIRST SESSION of the next annual meeting of the American Association 
will be held at Columbia University on the morning of Thursday, December 27. 
During Thursday and Friday Section G will meet at Columbia University; but 
on Saturday it will meet in connection with the Botanical Society of America 
at the New York Botanical Garden. The meetings will continue on Monday 
and Tuesday, or as long as is required by the program. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA has received by donation the herbarium 
and botanical library of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. BRANDEGEE, of San Diego. The 
herbarium is one of the most important in the west, since it contains some- 
thing over 100,000 sheets of carefully selected plants, mostly representative 
of the Mexican flora, which for many years has been Mr. BRANDEGEE’S 
chosen field, and of the flora of California and neighboring states, which has 
received careful treatment at the hands of Mrs. BRANDEGEE. It contains the 
sole remaining duplicate types of many species, the originals of which were lost 
in the recent fire that destroyed so large a portion of the herbarium of the Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences as well as the types of practically all the new species 
described by Mr. and Mrs. BRANDEGEE themselves. Among the noteworthy 
“sets represented are BrxB’s willows, PaARRy’s Manzanitas and Chorizanthes, 
a majority of the Mexican sets distributed by PALMER, PRINGLE, LUMHOLTz, 
Purpus, etc., and a selection of types and duplicate types from the ORcUTT 
and CLEVELAND herbaria. It is probable that no other herbarium contains so 
nearly complete a representation of the North American Borraginaceae. It is 
also rich in Mimulus, Eriogonum, and other groups in which Mrs. BRANDEGEE 
has been particularly interested. 
The University Herbarium, as now enlarged, numbers seieiinahty 250,000 
sheets, a majority of which are mounted in permanent form. The whole collec- 
tion is available for study and occupies fire-proof quarters in one of the buildings 
recently erected on the University campus.. Here visiting botanists desiring to 
study the West American and Mexican flora or to consult the working library of 
the herbarium, will be welcome and given every opportunity for research work, 
Mr. and Mrs. BRANDEGEE will continue their studies at the University where 
, BRANDAGEE has been appointed Honorary Curator of the Herbarium. 
Mail matter may hereafter be addressed to them at the University. 
