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LORQUINIA 
tination was Pine Flat, a resort about a mile and a half beyond Hot 
Springs. Here is a valley somewhat broader than the canyons up 
which we had come, having a large number of noble pine trees, some 
of which were over two hundred feet in height. One of these shaded 
my open air bedroom and I enjoyed very much the waking early in 
the morning and watching the birds high up in the branches. There 
were many robins nesting here and they made a great deal of noise 
every morning, so that we never needed an alarm clock. Here at 
Pine Flat we rested, fished, walked, botanized or read as we desired. 
One day we went about four miles up the canyon of Deer Creek to 
see the nearest Sequoias. There are three or four here and about as 
many more something less than a mile farther on. The largest of this 
group is about thirty feet in diameter and I don't know how high. 
On Friday morning we came back to Ducor end Saturday morn- 
ing started for home. We came back by the same route as far as 
Lebec and then turned off toward Elizabeth Lake and Bouquet Can- 
yon. In the west end of Antelope Valley we came through a short 
stretch of real desert. The vegetation was chiefly the tree yucca, 
juniper and a small blue sage. 
The east wall of Bouquet Canyon should interest our geologists 
on account of two strata near the top of the hills. One stratum is 
very light in color and the transition is abrupt, making the difference 
very noticeable. 
I have purposely refrained from mentioning my plant collections 
as I have not yet classified them all. In due time I will give some 
notes on the more important ones. 
G^oRGt; L. MoxLKY. 
SNAKE VENOM 
The subject of snake venom and the phenomena related thereto 
as regards the human organism is or should be of vital interest to 
everyone who ventures far from the pavements of civilization and the 
safeguards attached to it. 
The mythological systems from the earliest Asiatic to the modern 
Irish all recognize the reptile as a creature whose existence is incom- 
patible with human welfare. This attitude has caused all members 
of the class Reptilia to fall into disrepute, and resulted in innumer- 
able and absurd stories of their habits as manhunters. To correlate 
these fictions are an equal number of misstatements of what to do 
when anyone is bitten by a poisonous reptile. 
The external structural differences between poisonous and non- 
poisonous snakes are beyond the scope of this paper, and we will 
take it for granted that the reader can distinguish a venomous snake. 
