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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 



Miss Alice Eastwood, Curator of the Department of 

 Botany, besides being active in her own department, has been 

 serving also as Assistant Librarian, and has done much to- 

 ward perfecting an orderly arrangement of the books and 

 pamphlets which have been accumulating since the destruc- 

 tion, in 1906, of the Academy's original library. She has 

 also proved a valuable aid to the Director of the Museum. 

 She has made large personal collections during the year. The 

 department has been enriched, too, by donations, among which 

 that of L. E. Smith is notable. This consists of 2500 speci- 

 mens representing 572 species of plants from Northern Cali- 

 fornia. Other donors have added some 500 specimens to the 

 botanical collection, representing nearly the same number of 

 species. 



The material collected for the herbarium last year, and 

 much of that which had accumulated in preceding years, was 

 mounted, and some 12,000 mounted specimens have now been 

 made conveniently accessible. They fill seven cases, in which 

 they are arranged according to the latest system. They are 

 labeled, though not all as yet are specifically determined. 



A feature of the botanical department is the Botanical Club, 

 with a membership of about 50, which, under the leadership 

 of Miss Eastwood, meets once a week, alternatively at the 

 rooms of the Academy and on excursions. 



DEPARTMENT OF HERPETOLOGY 



In the Department of Herpetology, Dr. John Van Den- 

 burgh, Curator, and Joseph R. Slevin, Assistant Curator, have 

 continued active. The collection has increased from about 

 28,000 to about 30,500 specimens. Exploration has added 

 the bulk of the new material mainly from California, Nevada, 

 and Utah, with some specimens from the Channel Islands 

 and a few from Arizona. In this department, also, various 

 donors have added to the collection. 



The Curator and his assistants have completed the scien- 

 tific work on the collections from the Galapagos Islands, and 

 the results of the same appear as elsewhere noted in the publi- 



