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Sunday, Feb. 8. Garfield Canon, Oakland Hills* 
Early-flowering plants: Trilliums, Ribes, Asarum, etc. 
Meet at end of Park Boulevard car line, 10 a. m. 
Bring lunch. Coffee. Leader, Dr. E. F. Card. 
Saturday, Feb. 14, 7:55’ p. m. Room 113, Agriculture 
Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Regular meet- 
ing. The Redwood Belt and Its Conservation. Meeting 
under the auspices of the Committee on Conservation : Mr. 
Geo. B. Fumiss (Chairman), Mr. C. W. Carruth, Dr. 
E. F. Card. The meeting is scheduled to discuss vari 
ous movements for the preservation of virgin bodies of 
Redwood timber for public use; lantern slide illustra- 
tions. 
Sunday, Feb. 22. Trip to Wildcat Canon. Search 
for Ribes aureum, which is reported from this region, 
and other plants. Meet at University and Shattuck 
Aves., Berkeley, 9 a. m. Bring lunch. Leader, Mr. 
Ivan M. Johnston. 
Sunday, Feb. 29. Sky-line Trail, Oakland Hills 
(contour trail between Thorn Hill and Snake Notches). 
Early-flowering Aristolochia, Ribes, and other plants. 
Meet at end <of Park Boulevard car line. Dimond 
Canon, 9:30 a. m. Bring lunch. Hot coffee. Leader, 
Miss Helen Bergfried. 
Saturday, Mar. 20, 7:00 a. m. Annual dinner, 
Faculty Club, Berkeley. The dinner this year will be 
in honor of Mrs. J. B. Smith, founder of the Depart- 
ment of Botany in Mills College. Chairman of the 
Committee of Arrangements, Mrs. D. W. de Veer, Oak- 
land Public Museum. Fuller details will appear in 
the next leaflet. 
NEW GROWTH ON A SANTA CRUZ CLEARING. 
I bought a few acres of cut-over land in the hills 
between Soquel and Aptos, 700 ft. elevation. Some 
ground which was covered with Manzanita and 
Chamise I cleared. There was not another plant ex- 
cept Yerba Santa in sight. The first season — being 
this last summer — the following plants came up in a 
space of 75 ft. square. Where the seed could have 
come from I will not guess. The ground was never 
