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ifornians. E. ramosissimus, Desf. is given for Los Angeles; the only 

 known locality in the United States. This plant was gathered years 

 s^go by Dr. A. Davidson at or near the ' ' half-way house ' ' on the old 

 trail to Wilson ^s Peak. E. Funstoni Sp. Nov. with four varieties all 

 found in Southern Califoriiia, is the name now given for what has 

 heretofore passed as E. laevigatum. 



We recently received from Nome an invitation for our Academy 

 of Sciences to attend a meeting of the Alaska Academy of Sciences. 

 At this, their first, meeting, ' ' The Marconi System of Wireless Telegra- 

 phy ' ' is to be discussed. Their Charter was closed with 100 members. 



In ' ' Science, ' ' September 18, may be found the preliminary re- 

 port of the Marine Biolgical Survey Work carried on by the Zoological 

 Department of the University of California at San Diego, by Prof. 

 Eitter. The results for the funds available, have been large. Many 

 new species among the Eadiolaria and other of the lower forms of 

 marine life have been added to our coast lists, and not a few new to 

 science. Investigation of the water in San Diego bay led Prof. Eitter 

 to infer that contrary to the usual belief no large, subterranean body 

 of water enters the bay. The extension of the breakwater at San 

 Pedro will, for a time at least, spoil what was one of the best zoological 

 stations on the coast. In consequence the laboratory will probably be 

 permanently stationed at San Diego. With this end in view some of 

 the more enlightened members of the Bay City have formed themselves 

 into an association for the purpose of raising a permanent endowment 

 fund for marine research. 



The first report of the Desert Laboratory, near Tucson, is now in the 

 hands of the publishers. The report will contain a number of illustra- 

 tions of cacti and other plants native to that region. 



From Mr. Alex. Craw's Eeport to the State Horticultural Commis- 

 sion, it would seem that in Scutellista cyanea we have at last found a 

 remedy for the noxious black scale. The reports from every point are 

 all so far favorable. The parasites in question have survived the last 

 winter and have multiplied freely. Should this increase continue we 

 will be spared the extermination of the graceful pepper trees that have 

 been ruthlessly cut down of late because of their harboring the black 

 scale. It is also reported that a parasite has been found in Western Au- 

 stralia that destroys f'5 per cent of the Codlin moths. 



