The San Francisco call., 1898-04-23
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diately notified Professor Hilgard and will send specimens of the afflicted tree.
 F T. Bioletti, member of Professor Hilgards staff. recently made careful in- vestigation of the orchard of A. B. Gurr of Merced, which was extensively af fiicted with the disease. Every precau-- the disease, the afflicted trees being up- rooted and burned. The appearance of the disease In new locality will proba- bly, call forth redoubled efforts on the part of the university agricultural de- partment to prevent the pest from be- coming general.
 Agricultural Report Is Out.
 BERKELEY. April 22.-The partial re- port of work of the agricultural expert ment stations of the University of Cali fornia for the years lS95-96 and 1S96-97'' appeared to-day. The delay in the pub lication of the report for 1S95-96 was old agricultural building a year ago, at the same time destroying many records and ''copy" for the report.
 The closing of the State printing office and the Farmers Institute work, which took up much of the time of the depart ment staff, also caused delay in the pub lication of the book. The report for the pages, and is geographically the neatest that the department has ever published. The work on the book was done by the university printer, J. w. Finn.
 Co-Eds Nominate Officers.
 l ASSOClateU Women Students of the University of Cal ifornia met this morning to choose a president of the Women Students for the coming year to succeed Miss Marian c. Whipple. The following young ladies, all members of the junior class, were nomi- nated Miss Cornelia McKinne. Miss Lola Simpson and Miss Clotide Grunsky. The election will be held next Thursday V from 10 a. m. to D. m., and the new president will be installed on Tuesday at 12:10 o'clock. The other officers will be elected at the beginning of the next term.
 Summer Schools in Science.
 BERKELEY, April 22.-The physical and chemical laboratories at Berkeley will be open during the vacation from June 23 to August D. Practical Ia ahora will be given. Dr. w. P. Boynton will have charge of the work in physics and J. H. Gray Jr. and w. c. Blasdale of the work in chemistry.
 Berkeley News Notes.
 BERKELEY, April 22.-Professor C. M Woodwork of the agricultural denart. ment of the university left Berkeley to. night for Fresno to continue his inves. tigations on the vine hopper. His broth CT, H. O. Woodwork, will leave for ar extensive tour through Southern Califor. nia in search of chronological specimens for the university.
 The Berkeley High School will play the Lowell High School game of baseball tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock al Recreation Park. The game is one of the semi-inals in the A. A. l.. series The senior mechanical engineering stu. dents at the State University, under the direction of Instructor J. N. Le Conte have just completed the electric light plant of the university.
 The university rifle team will shoot to- morrow morning at Shell Mound in the intercollegiate rife contest. The team which will represent the University ot California consists of Ralph Bender. P B. Beville R. R. McGregor S. V. West F. R. Fairchild, J. A. Pes,rce. P. Castel hun. J. E. Mcclure, F. T. Dow, c. w Julien, s. Rawlings and R. Vanderbilt. Shigataro Morikubo of Tokio, Japan will lecture next Sunday evening at American Hall, Berkeley, on Japanese Marriages
 West Berkeley Lodge No. 21, Order ot Hermann's Sons, will celebrate their fiftI anniversary tomorrow evening in Sis terna Hall.
 The North Berkeley fire company vii meet tomorrow evening to organize themselves into a military company anC tender their services to the Government