4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
3. Section of Botany. 
Meeting held Thursday evening, December 20, at office of Dr. A. 
Davidson, who presided. The Chairman read a paper on the ‘‘ California 
Palm,’’ with notes and correspondence relative to the probable age of 
the palms on San Fernando street, Los Angeles. 
COLTON RUSSELL, Secretary. 
4. Section of Geology. 
[The date of meeting (Dec. 24) falling on Christmas Eve., no session 
of this Section was held in this month. ] 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 1904. 
Bureau of Chemistry. Cireular No. 20. Report of Committee on 
Recommendations of Referees. Bull. No. 88. The Chemical Composition 
of Apples and Cider. By Wm. B. Atwood, R. J. Davidson and W. A. 
Moncure. 
Bureau of Animal Industry. Circular No. 56. Facts Concerning 
the History, Commerce and Manufacture of Butter. By Henry Haywood, 
M.S. Bull. No. 62. The Relation of Bacteria to the Flavors of Cheddar 
Cheese. By Lore A. Rogers. 
Bureau of Soils. Bull. No. 24. The Centrifugal Method of Mechan- 
ical Soil Analysis. By Lyman J. Briggs, F. O. Martin and J. R. Pearse. 
Thirty-first Annual Report of the Fruit Growers’ Association of 
Ontario. 
Tenth Annual Report of the Fruit Experiment Stations of Ontario. 
Muhlenbergia, Vol. I, No. 5. Suggestions to Importers of Food 
Products. U.S. Dept. Agriculture. Chemistry Bull. No. 18. 
‘<Contributions to Cytological Technique,’’ by W. J. V. Osterhout. 
University of Cal. Botany, Vol. II, No. 2. \ 
‘‘The North American Species of Hymenoxys,’’ by T. D. A. Cock- 
erell. Reprint, Torrey Bull. No. 31. 
Ontario Agricultural College. Bull, No. 136. Some Bacterial Dis- 
eases of Plants Prevalent in Ontario. By F. C. Harrison and B. Barlow. 
Bull. No. 137. A Bacterial Disease of Cauliflower and Allied Plants. By 
F. C. Harrison. 
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. Bull. No. 108. Nov., 1904. 
Brown-Tail Moth and Other Orchard Moths. By Edith M. Patch. 
University of Tennessee Agricultural Exper. Sta. Vol. XVII, No. 3, 
July, 1904. Training and Pruning Fruit Trees and Vines. By Chas. A. 
Keffer. Vol. XVII, No. 4, Oct., 1904. Replacing Grain and Alfalfa in 
a Ration for Dairy Cows. By Andres M. Soule and Samuel EH. Barnes. 
Trans. Mass. Hort. Society for the year 1904. Part I. Boston, 1904. 
Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Vol. III, No. 1, December- 
1904. 
Mining Magazine, Chicago, San Francisco, London. Vol. XI, No. 1, 
January, 1905. 
American Journal of Archeology (2d series), Vol. VIII, No. 4, Oct.- 
Dec., 1904. Supplement to Vol. VIII, 1904. Annual Reports, 1904. 
Recent Seismological Investigations in Japan. By Baron Dairoke 
Kikuchi, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Tokyo Imperial University. 
