SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 55 



Perusaria fiavicunda, Tuck. 

 Lecidea enteroleiica, Fr. 

 Biiellia oidalea penichra, Tuck. 



" parasema, (Ach.), Th. Fr. 

 Lecidea (?), sp. Undetermined. 



The species here recorded were collected by Mrs. Blanche 

 Trask. 



The University of California has decided to conduct the 

 Sunnner School of Forestry at Idylwild. 



Notes atnd New^s. 



The U. S. steamer Albatross, that has done such good work in in deeji 

 sea exploration on this coast, will sail for Alaska to investigate the con- 

 dition of the salmon fisheries. Prof. D. S. Jordan will be in charge ot 

 the scientists engaged in the work. 



Loren, E. Hunt a graduate of Berkeley, has been placed in charge 

 of the Forestry Experiment Station at the University of California. \ 

 series of tests are to be made of the physical and chemical properties 

 of the durability, strength, and elasticity of the timbers of the Pacific 

 Coast. 



Le Eoy Abrams has left Stanford for a prolonged botanical tour of 

 the southern counties. 



Encouraged by the success of the Arizona Experiment Station in 

 the cultivation of dates, some energetic colonists in the new settle- 

 ment of Imperial are taking steps to plant out orchards of date trees 

 there. 



Prof. F. E. L. Beale, chief of the Bureau of Ecomonic Ornithology is 

 at present visiting California investigating the habits of our native 

 birds, what seed they eat, which are useful to the ugriculturist, and 

 which are injurious. The professor addressed meetings both at Pomona 

 College and at the Biological section nieeting of ourAcademy. 



The difficulty of separating the various pathogenic bacilli from the 

 liquid antitoxine they produce has been solved by the director of the 

 Jenner Institute in London. By the aid of the liquid air the bacilli are 

 frozen, triturated, and thus destroyed. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell has presented the Academy with a number of 

 reprints of articles descriptive of new species of plants and insects. 



Two large palms, nearly 60 feet in height were recently transported 

 from Los Angeles to adorn the grounds of a private citizen on Knob 

 Hill, San Francisco. 



A species of Basil, technically known as Ocimum viride Willd, is 

 the latest discovered remedy for mosquitos. It is claimed that this 

 shrub, which has liitherto been known as * ' the Sierra Leone fever 

 plant," will, by its mere presence in a room effectually secure its in- 

 mates from molestation by mosquitos. 



The Park Comission has granted the Sericultural Club of Los Ai^- 

 geles the use of four acres of land in Elysian Park to be devoted to the 

 planting of mulberry trees. The club are endeavoring to introduce the 

 silk worm and develop the silk industry. 



The San Jose scale is now suposed to have been originally intro- 

 duced on peach trees brought from China by the late James Lick. 



Mr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Division of Entomology, states that 

 the damage done by insects to agricultural products of this country 



