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very materially assisted by the kindness of General Ro- 

 mano, Governor of the Territory of Tepic. 



The object of this paper is to furnish a short account 

 of the last expedition sent out by the California Academy 

 of Sciences to the Baja California Cape Region, and 

 Tepic on the main land of Mexico; to furnish a more 

 detailed map of the said Cape Region, as well as a gen- 

 eral map ot the peninsula of Baja California. 



The need of a special map of the Cape Region has been 

 apparent for some time. The localities visited by the 

 members of the various expeditions were only indifferently 

 marked down on any previously existing map, and these 

 mostly incorrectly located. The rivers and creeks were 

 nowhere even hinted at and the mountain regions were 

 everywhere found only indicated. 



The Academy is constantly asked to furnish copies of 

 the map compiled by T. S. Brandegee to travelers, miners, 

 merchants, scientists, etc., intending to visit Baja Califor- 

 nia. Of late it has not been able to fill these requests, 

 because all the maps at its disposal were bound in the 

 volumes of the Proceedings of the Academy. 



A short reference will also be made to previous expedi- 

 tions by the Academy to these localities, to their results, 

 both as regards collections, new species and types, as well 

 as the papers published by various specialists describing 

 the collections thus made. 



In the summer of 1894, the California Academy of 

 Sciences appropriated money for an expedition to Mex- 

 ico, the main object being to collect various forms of 

 lower animals for scientific study. This expedition con- 

 sisted of Mr. Frank H. Vaslit and the writer. The ex- 

 pedition started from San Francisco in August; spent one 

 month in exploration and collecting in the mountains of 

 the Cape Region of Baja California, then crossed over to 



