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Trouessart, E.-L. La pluralite des especes de gorille. Bull. Mus. d’Hist. nat., 
pp. 102-108, 191-196 (1-13 of reprint), 9 figs. 1920. (Material in the Paris 
museum shows that two distinct species of gorilla inhabit West Africa; the 
Gorilla heringei mikenensis of Lonnberg, from the lake region, is regarded 
as representing a third very distinct species.) 
UEcMno'procta rufescens (Hystricida4), d4crit par Gray en 1865, retrouv4 
en Colombie, pres de Bogota. Bull. Mus. d’Hist nat., pp. 448-453, 3 figs. 
1920. (Revised diagnoses of genus and species.) 
Trotjghton, Ellis Le G. Notes on Australian mammals. No. 1. Rec. Aus- 
tralian Mus., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 118-122, figs. 1-6. December 4, 1920. (Cha- 
linolobus morio, Eptesicus pumilus, Epimys assimilis.) 
Willey, A. A question of bibliography. Science, n. s., vol. 52, pp. 608-609. 
December 24, 1920. (Asks for information as to what “Mr. Lockhart” is 
quoted in Coues’ Fur-bearing Animals as authority for observation on habits 
of the wolverine.) 
THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 
OF MAMMALOGISTS 
The Northern California Section of the American Society of Mammalogists 
was started on January 8, 1920, when, at the suggestion of Dr. Joseph Grinnell, 
a meeting of persons interested in the study of mammals was held at the Cali- 
fornia Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley. Organization was effected 
at that meeting and affiliation with the main Society was accomplished the fol- 
lowing month. During the year 1920 nine meetings were held, there being a 
recess over the summer months when a number of the members were absent on 
field trips. The attendance has varied from five to fifteen but the degree of inter- 
est shown is far above that indicated by the attendance. Meetings of other 
scientific organizations in the San Francisco Bay region have made it impossible 
for all the local members to be present at each meeting of the section and absence 
on field trips has further interfered with attendance. 
The field of interest has been quite wide although greater emphasis has been 
laid upon the life histories of mammals than upon any other one subject. The 
programs of the several meetings were as follows : 
January 8, J. Grinnell, On kangaroo rats; J. Dixon, Trapping and trappers in 
central and southern California. 
February 5, A. B. Howell, The California mastiff bat; Some Californian expe- 
riences with bat roosts (see this Journal, 1920, pp. 111-117; pp. 169-177). 
March 4, Dane Coolidge, Collecting mammals in Italy and France in 1900. 
April 1, J. Dixon, The golden beaver at Snelling, California. 
May 6, Prof. C. A. Kofoid, Experiences with the wild mammals of southwest- 
ern British India. 
August 26, Prof. J. S. Kingsley, Some reminiscences of vertebrate zoologists. 
September 16, Symposium on the status of deer in the central coast counties 
of California, 
October 28, “Book evening” at the University of California Library. 
December 9, Dr. T. T. Waterman, Indian legends relating to western mammals. 
