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YE EE A BUENA LEAVES 
Dr. Carlton Ball, head of the cereal investigations 
of the U. S. D. A., spent the week of Nov. 14 to 20th 
in California. The co-operative experiments with the 
University of California workers in rice and other 
cereals were examined and plans, arranged for future 
work. 
Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, Director of the Bureau of 
Science in the Philippines, has recently been visiting 
botanical centers in California and has now gone to 
Washington, D. C. Dr. Merrill has been for fifteen 
years actively botanizing in nearly all the islands of 
the archipelago and has now almost ready for publica- 
tion a critical census of the flowering plants of the 
Philippines which is designed to serve as the ground- 
work for a future flora of that region. 
NEW MEMBERS 
The following have been elected by the Council of 
the Society to membership during the period from April 
to October, 1920: Mr. Wm. P. Ewing, Pasadena; Miss 
Carrie R. Sage, Selma ; Miss Katherine Plolmes, Berke- 
ley; Mr. C. C. Weidemann, Berkeley; Mrs. Pearl 
Walther Weidemann, Berkeley; Mr. Daniel Bowen, Oak- 
land; Mr. Otto J. Steinwand, Selma; Mr. G-. F. Ferris, 
Stanford University ; Mrs. Roxana Ferris, Stanford Uni- 
versity; Mr. Richard Cox, Berkeley; Mr. E. O. Mentzer, 
San Francisco; Miss Clara N. Bishop, Oakland; Miss 
Dagmar Knudsen, Oakland; Miss Virginia P. Fox, Oak- 
land; Mr. W. S. Fields, Berkeley; Miss Lorette Provost, 
Berkeley; Miss Katherine Dodge, Berkeley; Mr. Thos. 
Connell, San Francisco; Mr. Geo. C. Bartlett, Berkeley; 
Mrs. A. M. Frost, Selma; Miss Donella. M. Cross, May- 
field; Mrs. R. D. Townsend, Selma; H. K. Padghan, 
Selma; Miss Donna Todd, Selma,; Miss Myra Drachman, 
Long Beach; Miss Laura I. Dodge, Long Beach; Mr. 
W. W. Price, Palo Alto; Miss Lucy Gonsalves, Oakley; 
Mr. S. B. Parish, Berkeley; Mrs. S. B. Parish, Berkeley; 
Miss Cora M. Pryor, Berkeley; Miss . Zella Reynolds, 
Oakland; Miss Mabel Reynolds, Oakland. 
IN THE HUMBOLDT WOODS 
A thousand thanks are due you for sending me to 
such a charming spot as this. I only wish we could stay 
longer, for just as we got to Bull Creek it came on to 
rain so heavily that logging was stopped for the day. 
So we could not go up to the camp as I hoped to do. 
If there exist in the state finer stands of Redwood than 
the flat near the mouth of Bull Creek I cannot imagine 
them. And whatever happens elsewhere it is most 
earnestly to be hoped that you can induce some one or 
the state to purchase and protect forever that priceless 
grove, which as you said far surpasses the Mariposa 
