No. 2. President's Annual Address for I 889. 



eluding the main land and Vancouvers Island, where 

 he has secured about 1,500 specimens, among which 

 are one or two species of birds new to the scientific 

 world. 



Dr. L. G. Yates has visited the Channel Islands for 

 scientific investigation, and the results of his trip are 

 already embodied in papers read before the Society. 



Other contributions on the same localities are to 

 follow. Although thes^ Islands have been visited by 

 several botanists — among them recently Profs. Greene 

 and Brandegee, both of whom discovered many new 

 species — the interesting field is far from being ex- 

 hausted, as none have yet seen the early spring flora 

 of the region. 



Dr. Yates has during the last year been honored by 

 his election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of 

 London, a distinction that now rests upon only six 

 citizens of the United States. He is about to publish 

 a list of "All Known Ferns," assisted by John Gilbert 

 Baker, F. R. S., of the Royal Herbarium at Kew. 

 This will be a valuable contribution to fern knowledge, 

 containing as it will, the habitat, synonyms, etc., of 

 all known ferns of the world. 



It is with some humiliation that we announce the 

 removal to Ventura of the telescope recently belong- 

 ing to our late member, Rev. S. Weldon. There 

 ought to have been sufficient scientific interest and 

 public spirit among our citizens to have retained it in 

 Santa Barbara. 



The thanks of the Society are due to our curator 

 and librarian, Mrs. F. C. Lord, for the efficient man- 

 ner in which her gratuitous duties have been perform- 

 ed, and I would heartily recommend her continuance 

 in office. She has eiven much time to the arrange- 

 ment of the librarv and museum, and is always present 

 on Saturday afternoons to answer questions in regard 

 to our collections. 



You are respectfully referred to the detailed reports 

 of the secretaries, treasurer, curator and librarian for 

 further information. H. C. Ford, President. 



