United States Geological Survey_; G.W. James, _The
Wonders of the Colorado Desert_ (2 vols., Boston, 1906).

CLIMATE, &c.--_U.S. Department of Agriculture, California Climate and
Crop Service_, monthly reports; E.S. Holden, _Recorded, Earthquakes
in California, Lower California, Oregon, and Washington Territory_
(California State University, 1887); _United States Department
Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Bulletins_, Alexander G. McAdie,
"Climatology of California" (Washington, 1903). There is a great mass
of general descriptive literature, especially on Southern California,
such as Charles Dudley Warner, _Our Italy_ (New York, 1891); Kate
Sanborn, _A Truthful Woman in Southern California_ (New York, 1893);
W. Lindley and J.P. Widney, _California of the South_ (New York,
1896); J.W. Hanson, _American Italy_ (Chicago, 1896); T.S. Van Dyke,
_Southern California_ (New York, 1886), &c.

FAUNA, FLORA.--Muir, _op. cit._; _United States Geological Survey,
19th Annual Report_, pt. v., H. Gannett, "Forests of the United
States"; idem, _20th Annual Report_, pt. v., "United States Forest
Reserves"; _United States Division of Forestry, Bulletin_ No. 28, "A
Short Account of the Big Trees of California" (1900), No. 38, "The
Redwood" (a volume, 1903), also _Professional Papers, e.g._ No. 8,
J.B. Leiberg, "Forest Conditions in the Northern Sierra Nevada"
(1902); _California Board of Forestry, Reports_ (1885- ); _United
States Censuses_, reports on forests; _United States Biological
Survey, North American Fauna_, No. 16, 1899, C.H. Merriam,
"Biological Survey of Mt. Shasta"; _United States Department
Agriculture, Contributions from United States National Herbarium_,
iv., 1893, F.V. Coville, "Botany of Death Valley Expedition"; _State
Board of Fish Commissioners, Reports_, from 1877; _United States Fish
Commissioners, Annual Reports_, from 1871, and _Bulletins_ from 1882;
J. le Conte, "Flora of the Coast Islands" (1887), being _Bulletin_ No.
8 of California Academy of Sciences; consult also its _Proceedings_,
_Memoirs_, and _Occasional Papers;_ G.J. Peirce, _Studies on the
Coast Redwood_ (publication of Leland Stanford jr. University, 1901).

AGRICULTURE.--_California Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins_
from 1884; _Reports of the State Dairy Bureau_, from 1898; _State
Board of Horticulture, Reports_, 1889-1894; _United States Censuses_,
1890 and 1900, report