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Oakland and Antioch train at 40th and Shatter. Leave 
train at Country Club station. Walk up Trampas Creek 
to top of ridge. Lunch at summit. About 10 miles. 
Leader, Miss Amy Rinehart. 
YERBA BUENA LEAVES 
Dr. G. J. Peirce, Professor of Botany in Stanford 
University, is spending his sabbatical year at Harvard 
University, in order to complete his new textbook on 
plant physiology. 
Dr. P. B. Kennedy has been for some weeks in the 
field working on forage problems in the El Dorado 
National Forest. 
Mr. Harold E. Parks, who guided the Society in the 
Guadaloupe and Mt. Umunhum outings, worked on his 
collections for a few days in September at the Univer- 
sity Herbarium, Berkeley. 
Mr. Antone J. Soares spent a month during mid- 
summer in Yosemite and vicinity adding some fifty 
species to his collection of colored prints of native 
flowers. 
Mrs. D. W. deVeer, the first Secretary of the Society, 
who gave so freely of her time and energy to the So- 
ciety’s interests, has left California to live at Douglas, 
Minnesota, for the time being. 
Dr. A. A. Heller, Instructor in Botany in the Chico 
High School, passed the summer botanizing at Mt. 
Shasta and Mt. Eddy and at Crater Lake, Oregon. He 
writes that he prefers the latter station to any other 
botanical locality which he knows. 
Dr. R. Kent Beattie, Pathologist in charge of the 
Office of Foreign Plant Quarantine of the Federal Horti- 
cultural Board, has recently visited California for con- 
ference with Mr. W. Si. Fields who has charge of the 
work in San Francisco. This office has the promulga- 
tion and execution of quarantines on all plants and plant 
products in the raw or unmanufactured or processed 
state from foreign countries. The Federal Horticultural 
Board attempts to control and regulate the importation 
of plants and plant products in order to exclude the 
introduction of noxious or dangerous insects and plant 
diseases or isolate pest-infested areas of the country. 
Dr. H. B. Humphrey, Pathologist in charge of the 
cereal investigations of the U. S. D. A., visited Califor- 
nia during the latter part of August inspecting the ex- 
periments in progress at several places in the state. 
While in Berkeley he addressed the Agronomy Seminar, 
giving a general outline of the work of the office. 
Mr. Charles Piper Smith, who has been for some 
years specializing on the genus Lupinus, has moved 
from the Eastern United States to California in order 
to be able to study Lupine plants in the field. He is 
now a member of the teachers’ staff at the San Jose 
High School. 
