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Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, it is 
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area of eastern United States. On this account the Department 
of Agriculture has just issued Farmers’ Bulletin No. 670, describ- “"” 
ing the habits of injurious meadow and pine mice together with 
practical methods of destroying them 
Meteorology for July—The total precipitation for the month 
was 3.49 inches of which 1.75 inches fell on the night preceding 
the Ist. The maximum temperatures for each week were 88° 
on the roth, 85° on the 18th, 95° on the 18th, and 95° on the 31st. 
The minimum temperatures were 54° on the gth, 59° on the 
13th, 53° on the 25th, and 62° on the 27t 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
55 specimens *fascicle IV. (Distributed by 
Dr. Hugo Dahlstedt.) 
i f al: chiefly marine, from Chile and Peru. (Collected by Dr. 
and Mrs. J. N. Rose.) 
Texas. (Given by Dr. Frederick McAllister.) 
lorida. (By exchange with Mr. Severin 
Rapp.) 
€ Phsladetah Californi: B + 
of California. ) 
diana. (Given by Dr. H. H. Rusby.) 
specimen of oo from ae (By exchange with the United 
mae Neuen Mus im.) 
lana. (Given by Mr. C. C, Deam.) 
I specimen of Stomoisia cornuta o rm da. (Given by Miss Sarah B. 
Stevens ) 
f Té: b Long Island, New York. (Given by Mr. W. E. 
Mackenna.) : 
1,017 i f lick a the Underwood herbarium. (Purchased from 
the oe Estate.) 
specimen of eee sanguinea from Lake Tahoe, California. (Given by 
ee Wendell T. Bus! 
197 specimens of fungi from New Mexico. (By exchange with the United 
States National Museum.) , 
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