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the other articles were carried as hand-luggage to San Francisco, 
where they were shipped as freight. 
On the way to San Francisco I was at a point in the moun- 
tains where the flora was extremely rich, and tried to collect 
there, but the train made no stop short of Hornbrook. I 
debarked here but found the country severely parched by drouth. 
here was very little to be secured, but I collected an interesting, 
very large-fruited wild red plum, a wild Cra‘acgus, some cones of 
Pinus ponderosa and a cultivated crab-apple and plum, beside 
some miscellaneous species. 
At San Francisco I had much Department work to do and I 
was able to spend only one day in the hills. Here it was exces- 
sively dry and little was obtained. I collected, however, an 
abundance of fruiting branches of the spurious cascara sagrada 
and the evergreen Vaccinium, in fine fruit. I also obtained speci- 
mens of the yerba santa (&riodictyon californicum). At this point 
I visited the Muir a of Seguota sempervirens, which I found 
gaan intere 
he necessity - ee Los Angeles in time for the con- 
vention aie my visiting the Yosemite, and from making 
other stops en route. I did, however, find time to spend a few 
hours at the Big Tree station, Felton, Cal., where I collected 
bark of the false cascara sagrada. 
At Los Angeles I was intensely occupied with convention 
work during the entire period of my stay and was not able to do 
any collecting. From here I shipped the collections made up to 
that point. 
From Los Angeles I went by automobile to Redlands, a 
the changes that have been affected by irrigation in the reclaimed 
portion. So deeply impressed was I by this change that I de- 
cided to collect lantern-slides illustrative of the eaten 
process and its results. About sixty such slides were obta 
These will illustrate my lecture to be given at the Garden on a 
afternoon of Saturday, November 6. They illustrate not only 
the changes referred to, but incidentally some important phases of 
