, Yolo county,
instruction is given in practical agriculture, horticulture, dairying,
&c.; courses in irrigation are given at Berkeley; a laboratory of plant
pathology, established in 1907 at Whittier, Riverside county, and an
experiment station on 20 acres of land near Riverside, are for the study
of plant and tree diseases and pests and of their remedies. A marine
biological laboratory is maintained at La Jolla, near San Diego, and
another, the Hertzstein Research Laboratory, at New Monterey; the
Rudolph Spreckels Physiological Laboratory is in Berkeley. The
university has excellent anthropological and archaeological collections,
mostly made by university expeditions, endowed by Mrs Hearst, to Peru
and to Egypt. In 1907 the university library contained 160,000 volumes,
ranking, after the destruction of most of the San Francisco libraries in
1906, as the largest collection in the vicinity. The building of the Doe
library (given by the will of Charles Franklin Doe), for the housing of
the university library, was begun in 1907. The university has also the
valuable Bancroft collection of 50,000 volumes and countless pamphlets
and manuscripts, dealing principally with the history of the Pacific
Coast from Alaska through Central America, and of the Rocky Mountain
region, including Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
and Western Texas. This collection (that of the historian Hubert Howe
Bancroft) was acquired in 1905 for $250,000 (of which Mr Bancroft
contributed $100,000), and was entrusted (1907) to the newly organized
Academy of Pacific Coast History. The library of Karl Weinhold
(1823-1901) of Berlin, which is especially rich in Germanic linguistics
and "culture history," was presented to the university in 1903 by John
D. Spreckels. The university publishes _The University of California
Chronicle_, an official record; and there are important departmental
publications, especially those in American archaeology and ethnology,
edited by Frederic Ward Putnam (b. 1839), including the reports of
various expeditions, maintained by Mrs Hearst; in physiology, edited by
Jacques Loeb (b. 1859); in botany, edited by William Albert Setchell (b.
1864); in zoology, edited by William Emerson Ritter (b. 1859); and in
astronomy, the publications of the Lick Observatory, edited by William
Wallace Campbell (b. 1862). In 1902, under the direction of Henry Morse
Stephens (b. 1857), who then became professor of history, a departm