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included, so that many species of Ceanothus, many of the man- 

 zanitas, the sumachs, and many others have been omitted." 

 (Here is room for another manual.) 



In a few pages of pithy introductory discussion the author 

 rightly emphasizes the beauty, variety, and grandeur of Califor- 

 nia's forest vegetation. The fame of the State is in large meas- 

 ure the fame of her "Big Trees" — the first interest of the tourist 

 and sojourner. But who could overlook the eighteen species of 

 pine described in text and illustration, or even such beautiful 

 rarities as the mountain mahogany and Lyonothamnus of Santa 

 Catalina Island? A most valuable feature of the book is the 

 author's key to the families of the trees. With this, as well as 

 two additional keys based upon the fruits and leaves respectively, 

 it ought to be no difficult matter for any lover of trees to deter- 

 mine the identity of a species. W. F. B. 



The Club library is in receipt of a copy of 

 Annual Report of Report of the Smithsonian Institution 

 THE Smithsonian ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ interesting articles, 



Institution. 1904. ^^^^^^i mention should be made of one by 

 Douglas W. Freshfield, entitled "On Mountains and Mankind." 

 It is a fresh and suggestive discussion of the fascination which 

 mountains have exerted over the mind of man from the earliest 

 times. In the original form the article was an address delivered 

 before the Cambridge Meeting of the British Association in 1904. 



W. F. B. 



