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Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Parish of San Bernardino, have 
taken up their residence at 1624 Scenic Ave., Berkeley. 
Mr. W. S. Malloch has been appointed to a position 
in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas at 
College Station and will have charge of classes in 
pomology and plant breeding. 
Dr. L. R. Abrams of Stanford University spent a 
week in April in an expedition through the Santa Lucia 
Mountains in company with Dr. Jaime de Angulo. 
Dr. W. A. Setchell, who has been on leave of ab- 
sence from the University of California during the past 
year, visited the Samoan Islands in the South Seas on 
a collecting trip during the summer. 
Miss Alice M. Ottley, Miss A. E. Ehlers and Miss 
L. M. Newlon botanized for four weeks in June and 
July in the Tahoe region. 
The Selma branch of this Society made a field trip 
up the Sand Creek road towards General Grant Park 
on May 15 and 16. This branch, which is under the 
leadership of Mrs. Harriett P. Kelly, is maintaining an 
exhibit of native plants in the public library at Selma. 
Dr. Margaret C. Ferguson, Professor of Botany in 
Wellesley College and head of the department, is spend- 
ing her sabbatical year in Berkeley. 
Dr. H. J. Webber, until recently Professor of Plant 
Breeding in the University of California and Director 
of the Agricultural Experiment Stations, has resigned 
to become General Manager of the Pedigreed Seed Com- 
pany, field seed specialists, Hartsville, North Carolina. 
It is with great regret that California botanists see Dr. 
Webber sever his relations with the University of Cali- 
fornia. 
The officers of the Society are: President, Dr. W. L. 
Jepson; First Vice-President, Dr. W. S. Blasdale; Sec- 
ond Vice-President, Mr. A. L. Walker; Corresponding 
Secretary, Professor C. B. Bradley, 2639 Durant Ave., 
Berkeley; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss A. E. Ehlers, 2613 
Durant Ave., Berkeley, telephone Berk. 3699; Second 
Corresponding Secretary, Professor Elizabeth Smith, 
College of Agriculture, Berkeley. 
If you do not receive the publications of the So : 
ciety it is because you are in arrears for dues. Dues 
for 1920, $1.00, are now past due. Remit promptly 
to Miss Ehlers, 2613 Durant Ave., Berkeley, so that the 
work of the Society may not be handicapped. 
For the purpose of obtaining information regarding 
the snapdragon rust and some of the closely related 
species, Dr. Blasdale desires to obtain for experimental 
use viable seeds of any of the native species of 
Adenostegia, or Cordylanthus or any of the species of 
Antirrhinum except A. virga. Packets may be addressed 
him at 2514 College Ave., Berkeley, California. 
