: °F a oe yy ime is 9" sug ttt a et RR pT a FO TE RG ge et) Emam malian tlm pe ei ES ie STE Ean Es Hos dese hills, cae from d Vol. XII. No. 1 June, 190!. Whole No. 102. Established 1884. THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. Published oe Price 10c a copy; $1 ; $10 for life Charles sBussell Oreutt, Raltor, Number Tw y-first baer ty San Bicgo- Cal srorata, U. 8. Sal LIFE SUBSCRIBERS. NE PHILIP. STONE. CHARLES E. coe ha hu J. M. Just a thought - mae thee Pleasure, Just a as, ge " weg the wa Just a w pea oe Jes ai Do cou ee gi you a? —_——_—--——_—— THE COLORADO DESERT. st triangular-depressed plain, below the level of for a large rtion of its rface, with p- proximate are velve million Ss t one-half of which lies n. te ry), and mpara tively desti e of verdure or of ani- tai and the lorado river of th west, extending from e San Gor- ra) ass, at the base the S Ber dino mountains, on the h, to the shores of the Gulf of Califor nia, on uth, and forms one the most extensive d mportant portions of the arid regions of the Tnite Naa es. n the orth nd nor is separated from more elevated hey ins of the b ow ay ai of denuded e San Bernar- o mountains to near the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers. lar arid conditions exist a. p iarly approp me, from the great abundance va. iety of lizards, but robably given from some fancied resémblance in the outline of these hills to this nimble animal, Th peninsula range of mountains. with a varying altitude of four thou- Sand to eleven thousand feet, rise in recipitous abruptness m th western borders of the ins. The eres this mountain nge forms sharp and well-defined line o de- markation betwe région undreds, often thous Ss 6 et in eight, present small induce ents for plant grow and the less precipitou banks are but ae htly 1 ; botanical eA mips aes. harvest ami scene that for beauty and grandeur waule o, Bat. Carden 3 The West American Scientist. 4 rival even the Yosemite Surround- ed by walls three thousa nd feet more high, the queenly Washington alm (Washington fillfera) may 2 found in groves, growi wit i- cal uxuriance beside quiet brooklets, o > ® S = 7 ert (Hesperocallis u ata) astes its sweetness e desert air; every an orny bush produces its eauty, and a wealth of bril- lant annuals spring into brief exist- Dating June and July, 1888, the wri- “ose ig 1890 ("Th orado “+b harles Russell Souste pages che 919), Lyell says: —"“Geology is the science which es rted i modifying “we pire Bad external structure of 850 the more depressed cat f the Colorado des seems ve been nown as e Cienega Diagtocree no perha he Salton Sea,but more usually Resipuiice as the Dry Lake: early sa eas in 1870 we are told by of gn period that the Colorado was in the habit of Bebreee OV werflowing its ks during the f summer fre shets. when es s Ited i the river has its so overfl sainatie attending era Indians in their agri- cultural Beg These fertile lands were forme a the sediment deposi- ted by eho waters of the Colorado river, and as the a ee in depth the overflow decreased; the in- creasing cotredeetaee of these overflows now of more rare occurr e, the In- dians were compelled oF t ountal round the northern arm of the desert In 1890 the desert Indian huts might yet b ou ng mesquite groves ew river, and in 1892 I found the Indians producing from the untill- ed soil crops of ane after an over- flow of some of the lands below the United States boundary. “Approaching Carrizo creek, we saw for the first time in man the mountains. From their sc ea x eaidues of fantastic and mitative forms sae ei of beds i in many places epee "itis ae pass ture and isplac nt. Whe they cu rough in he bed of Carrizo creek, ands of brown ferruginous Menaul | 5 The West American Scientist. 6 which include large numbers of fos- sils, ost s and anomias. These have been described by Mr. Conrad, and are considered of Miocene age. In the de- bris of these ee beds I found frag- ments of the eat oyster (Ostre titan), ey Pane ah of the Miocene beds of the California coast. ew i similar peyote. pd brackish water.’’— Dre F: ‘e Cooper reports (in bulletin 4, California state mining bureau, pages the discovery by H. W. Carrizo creek of ‘“‘fos- cor iat ex- to have oat islan orms u li late tertiary of Car- rizo creek beds, and apparently unlike those now inhabiting the Guif of Cali- fornia. Fra ts of ee rock ag Carboniferows age have been found n the ee ereek region by various ehgated but none in place have yet been reporte : The Indians, SS ek ipo Bowers, still preserve ory of catching fish along the sectors hase 3) he San Jacinto mountai here the Cahuilla Indians pointed out to him the artificial o or e fish traps,” where their ancestors easily se- eured the fish on ee receding 8 the tides of the ancient This would seem to indicate that ‘the change tibet n ar of ful comparatively recent, and a study of the fossils seems to confirm this view. n ol ndian in the ee nies = mountains pointed oO t iners ears ago points ut to in the hills to va gelirewe! where his _ evaporation and influx of fresh t great grandfather used to catch fish from the sea. e cause of the separation of this Paes Rape at eave water shells ina mi-fossi! condition, of a brack- ish Prag ollusk, and of marine shells species now u livi t Diego the Pacific side, would seem i that the great changes which this remarkable region th ev be! natural phenomena pt gradua pid, occurrence. Aft its iso- ition from the s a) atio few years eehatorin this basin from an eae of the a barren waste, the salt of the sea water forming the salt eed at Sa se er, Nae great basin changed first to a brackish lagoon, and finally to a vast fresh veal lake. The water of the Se caer river at Yuma is known to carry at high wa- t - ° 4 o so i ] fo" =f sa | 3 oO n nm wo fa ot being converted at th the kage under control of the wa- ter from the Colorado river, into fields oe ee ruitute 1 promise, Dr. Robert ten oe Carter Stearns, in the Ca 2 ap: Ke] ® oo [orm a face of the desert where this well wa i 7 The West American Scientist. 8 sunk is 195.54 feet below sea level. Dr. arks: a in a guess as to the dept the water when these shells were alive? Shall we ae the depth of the nha to the of indicate, a lake o a ae tea only a lagoo r chain of lagoons, ee or Racwadketen. according to the er, which probably vane the catchment or surplus water in per- s seasons ual ainfall sometimes, after a prolonged vide- and forming an extensive expanse a few feet only in depth, as was seen in the valleys o the The rate of as t through countless cen- 8 myriads, w eith e they may be scraped up long the ‘capensis base of the San einto mountains, an old beach line is wel psagg tn Aan can be Degeads gre for ocks ek Ob Re reais ine, sharp nae ia ged above. This lin ual m urement has been hom be even with the present jeval of the Aajor W. H. Emory, in Slag of the Jnited States ee Mexican boundary survey, gave the iueine table of distances: San Felipe Vatiectto to Ca ohare creek ni to Vallecito, 17.85 miles. rr creek, 16.6 miles. to Big laguna, 26.41 re ta na to New river, 5.83 miles. New rd to Little laguna, 4.5 miles ma laguna to Alamo Mocho, 16. 44 vie hickaé Mocho to Cook’s well, 21.84 miles, Cook’s well to Fort Yuma, 20 miles. Dr. opher Parry, bot- e boundary commission, in reporting a reconnoissan made in 849, wrote, Ws: ee ane region, as follo “On lea as a marine she lis and gypsum makes ae extensive beds. The the tableland shows a Variable ht ck- f water-worn pebbles, ing mountains. his s in a ¢g drainage of a large s which is sometimes visited by he showers. avy ains this rain-water, Svureoala for several hese sources fail, and other vegetation, while maga able portions sustain a heavy grow 9 : The West American Scientist. 10 the mesquite. This affords fine d western point of which s be given the e of Signal mountain this consist orm ta syenite, as- sociated sur- pu nents. corn, and beans. T “pen are sae and inaitterent, musk- melons larg and een good; these titer hey cut a ote Ww e0- ter use. Wheat is Bien ted is in ie same manner, near the lagoons, in December nuary. and ripens in May o from the former, by boil- ing and fermentation, a tolerably good be made. The preat depend- 3 > but h ed, they seldom k r hunger, or required by ale eae same methods are followed bserved muts in the summit of t he peninsul Aponte at the a The amie oe Tne is yaar about 30 miles ld izo Media roamed the no omad in former , Save an interesting he cre of yellow sulphur were foun Z ET ground near about was covered with a white efflorescence, tinged vi red and yellow. On the edge of small ond erystals of sal pantry 1 to inches long, were collected.”’ A e of ea reap a low Yuma bec full f da ai their Rarsstlany 9 and that the ae halon . ea ee bectt shee here for nt the heal and a maae peri i the | tiiicin SOME DESERT FOSSILS. | AMNICOLA LONGI 5 arcuate; perforate. one-tenth = Gmbilical region nearly ; ng th one-eighth, breadth inch. Livin ah.—Henry Hemph Quaternary: ae Grande, Palvredo Nevada basin, a2Q » & ES s yo ee ® are numerous and of acha ik’'y whiteness, showing that they are all dead shells. Living: Dos Pal Desert, near Salton The most num mas spring, Colorado (Oreutt). gies be all the’ fossil n the ert, and though 6 of the smallest apectan: its numbers t as to exceed the others in GNATHODON MENDICUS Goul ving: Colorado estuary to Masaitai. Me ie fs eatevnary: North of Paneer creek, Colorado Desert.—Le Con PHYSA HUMEROSA u Gl i Living: Colorado ig tat a vramid lake, Nevada; iy river, Quaterna ear "oe aorta Nevada ‘Very ab ede the Colorado Desert in_a “semi-silicified’ condition. Virtually only a distorted form ie st Colorado Deser The West American Scientist. Bs PLANOSB MMON Gould. hell large, discoid, subconie, delicately nai op e broad ly reales expande d on ed five: eighths to one; dia “Ria math lake, Oregon. Honey lake, Lassen county, Calif. Nevada, Colo- ado aaa ce ieee: Cienega Grande, Colorado Desert.—T. H. Webb: W. P. Blake, La- hon Lassen county, California. fa Ire rounded oval. very small; diameter, ib; oe 5 mm Q aternary: Dry 1 ake, Colo o Des- er ANODONTA pbosms Hthinr jar Lea. A aac J 189, 256. Living: Bodega Bay Calif. to Baja California. Mazatlan Quaternary: Sa St B Ss Diego, Calif. Borrego springs, Colorado Desert ( (Oreutt). San Nicholas Island (S. Ripieairis CALIFORNICA Hind Hinds. Ann Nat — 11:255 (1843); Daal Sulphur 12; t2, f 4, Keep, West coast hells, 44, Living: Monterey, if. to Sante Do- mingo, Baja California (Orcu Quaternar De. ’s Island, San Pedro,;.. Calf: —{s. ers). Borrego Bow springs, Colorado Desert ee utt). Ree tears ge RORUS ood. Pah come ta Barbara, Cane to Cape eas. = auatern nary: Santa ry rbara, San Quintin, Baja Cali ifornia. Borrego springs, “Color ado Desert (Orcu tes ai phe Cae ce Monterey, to Santo Do- Hobday “Baia California pete’ Quaterna San Diego, Calif, Borre- £0 springs, Colorado Desert (Orcutt). VENUS er eo se Living: Mo rey, “to Santo Do- mingo, Baja Calito ornia. n(Orcutt ae Quaternary: arbara alif. to — Quintin, Baja, “Calista” (Greutt). cvs Colorado Desert (Or- FIVELA CRASSATELLOIDES Con Living: Santa Crus, Calif: * Sante Domingo, Baja he ope (Oreutt). Quaternary: arbara, Calif. to n » Quintin, Baja California (Orcutt), ae Springs, Colorado Dese (Or- cu by Pedi TITAN. Conra ene: Carrizo jr Calif. ; artes HEERMANNI Contes i pea: Wi Carrizo creek, Cali OSTR VESPERTINA Conrad. | Ovate-s ae sprig lower aie plaited ribbed; hinge long and wide, Bue 13 The West American Scientist. 14 pn gs cavity gh te mar- mus- and somewhat ee wide, profound, utely gins abrupt; cavity not ver cular impressions large, incpeabana: “upper vaive fiat, irregular; pallial impression eater Mice Carrizo creek, and near San Diego, “Califo rnia. ANOMIA SUBCOSTATA Conrad Obtusely ovate, rather thick; umbo of é et é r valve entire, i olete Sadit towards the base. ; Miocen Carrizo creek, San Diego ~— county, ape OCINEBRA LSONII Nu 1b pucepr pile bar RAR Conr. PECTEN DESERTI Conrad. Miocene: Carrizo creek, Calif. EDIT TAL. The year 1900 has seen the addition of 140 pages to the volumes of the West American Scientist-far less than we had hoped but not a bad showing in the face of the difficulties we have met with. It is our purpose to bring together in these paves descrip.ions of all the ani- mals, plants, ae Is, etc. of the west, together with no of economic a geographic soatheshce bibliography, synonymy, etc 3 Qu. The cooperation of our readers is in- vited, and our services in turn we offer in determining names of minerals, shells and plants, or in any way that may tend to increase interest in these branches. BOOKS. MURRAY, D. A.: Atom nd ergies 1901. im. Dr $i cl. Tacrodaation by Prof. Frederick arr. aN intéresting discussion physical escience, aiming at iinls eecineirctien ° phenomena little understood, rendering them less mysterious to the average stu- dent; “his assumptions not wir iin ee gar to facts, but aid in the explanat ta) em New York, 156 Fifth ave.: A. S. Barnes & ‘oO. RPER, GEORGE W. How to de- termine and classify our ‘common rocks. —Kakteenkulturer im Hause und ihr Wert. 1896. 32 p. 1 f. 50c eco THEODOR et ch ann Die Sukkulenten. Ber: “| os abs: pi 189° T.° $3. | Monographie de la famille des Cactees. Par:s.. 684 1853. a ac pr 7: 458. Reprint | EATON, ELON HOWA —Birds of Western New York. Rochester ac pr 4: 1-64. Fr PECK, gp eee Pook Report of the e botanist on edible fungi of New ork ‘Memoir N. Y. state museu fs 44-68. 1900. Oil and gas vielding formations of Cal- ifornia. State min u b 19. 236 p illustrations and me West American MOLLUSCA eee notes, synonymy, bibliog- aphy, e collected a published in = page 3° ‘umber for Dane o many ee for sale mcincindiae: | over 2000 es. RCUTT, San ate Califernia. * Botany of California! — ithe in 2 large volumes, ma had for ¥ be ay extra for transportation. c escriptions and pi sel A notes concerning many. ORCUTT, San Diego, California. Review ot the Cactacege Charles ae ll Oreutt, Original deseript- d reprinted, with e author’s un a will Tilustra th garden nistie, Vo o is devoted to the species of the United had ce and issued in 4 parts at “Very valuable...._. aboveall works that Twelve years ago the writer contrib- uted to the San Diego Union a brief an- notated list of the minerals then json ed with other lithia ashlee : ACTINOLITE — Abundant "8 the Soe desert. GATE—Occurs in various itm in Stier ern ae ig ia, but not com- mercial quantity. The wOHee supply is principally eines from and Brazil, w ss o polished in Germ AST ER An abundance of ap- parently good quality - this form of orado desert, Uruguay mainly cut and Allen num, anthanum, and yttrium, together with once Silica, lime, and iron, with trac esium, manganese, soda, - copper, is occurs in _ Pennsylvania, New Jersey, an in n $ Bernardino county; the iS co oe been valued as high as $50 apiece 7) per pound—being pop ularly called rubies—like the eagtn bg — aR and N which much superior to the Somos] teal Sees light. LUM kalinite. AMBER—See succinite The West American Scientist. be by t 16 Al YGONITE — Associated with aes in the lithia mines of the county. AMETHYST—Deep purple, violet fading almost int line variety of quartz. Colo orado Held ecimens. May be expected r in ssa of the mines of the Colorado cn ANGL Ti Aaiile of lead has i reported. vale m the Colorado desert n some abu nee; composition about 73, 6 per ce gat aside of lead, and 26.4 per cent sulphuric ANTIMONY— re ore carrying about ee o pink, crystl- mine at San An tonio, Baja California not far from Bs Santos Bae It was formerly . O. Hovey. of the American Mu- seum om liatural History, writes “I find no such name as antonite in D.ina’s System ot Mineralogy, 1892, 6th ed., or in the Appendix thereto, 1899, or in Foote’s Complete Mineral Catalogne € mineral on merely superficial examination looks to me like some form of sericite.”’ ARGENTITE—Silver glance is com- posed of about 87.7 per “ea silver and 12.9 per cent Peecint e of the most valuabl mi silver T-- Phosphate of lime has s been extent, and the ee ian manufactured into bo iler covering, etc. on is coast seems not to justify their development at presen ASPHALTU curs native at var- ious points along the coast from San sia o northward. California eter n 1896 enarly 75, ponies worth a half a million The notion of ahi asphalt artifici- ally from herrings and sawdust seems so eof RT eR get Pea er Me ee oO eis eels ale See ek alte Bim eile Shige ie gS 0 ae Se i eth a Nt Vala et ee £7 The West American Scientist. 18 extraordinary as to sugg+st burlesque Nevertheless, this surprising feat has been accomplished oe ace W.¢. Day. A A A native exyc chloride of copper, originally parity in the form of sand, in the desert of Atacama, be- near Calmalli, os California, is gaa att as this specie AZURITE—‘Mountain plue” (blue carbonate He copper) occurs sparingly me ihe copper mines of Arizona. ompo- sition about 69.2 per cent copper oxide, 25.6 per cent carbonic acid, and 5.2 per ary rater. Bz regia aaen or heavy spar is erat eg ut 65.7 per cent baryta 34.3 p Stent of sulphuric acid. The preseni supply in pe United States is excessive the d. ER tS Quite cand to those from the Ural mountains have been produced j i Carolina. Their in San Diego county has re- eently Beer predicted. BRAZILIAN EMERALD—The em- blem of the Brazilian clergy, is not an emerald proper, but a green green tourmalines have cries found in San Diego age vy, erf termination, is banded green at the of achroite Peer into rubellite beh ail fractured. A other specimen en at the camber with a thin outer coat of black. B E—Blac a occu mineral encod from the r mines at nta Ros- alia, Baja California, on the west coast of the Gulf of California. Occurs in perfect cubes. Ww vag ee Ter etree ties gi from a n about 36.6 me de of blue and green. The deserts of California ne Nevada produce an- out rasan eh nreaaet in 1896 being 18,- 508,000 pounds, worth $675,400 CALCITE eg rbonate of lime, con- sisting of lime a carbonic acid. R saat” in crystalieetiane in- cludes marble, limestone, i for the manufacture of cement. ino- lite, occuring on the Colorado desert, is gues r form. mestone occurs abundantly in var- ee most highly “ the ancients—oc- ert. where higly prized or ee stone have been partially develop CASSITERITE — e fro r cent tin, and 21.4 nt oxygen. It occurs in the Black Hills, South Da- ota, at escal, Riverside county, California, an iego. e mens equal to that from Durango Mexico, which is polished as a gem. ERAR RI “Hor silver” 75.38 per cent silver, and 24.7 a piece of mosaic work, Pi : = 19 CHALCOPY RITE — Copper pyrites exist in large deposits in Baja Califor- ia, j i ie ~ now be- ing developed ne CHRYSOCOLLA_ Pomc ne copper, composed of 45.2 per cent copper oxide, r cent silica, and 20.5 Y Beka ifu Cal- metimes mistaken for Be esoPRisn— rie Rages! ae Visalia, Cal, yi f we th Se ett Bs oO oS et B ce no or. & ot S i] 6 Er i) — ot a4 mh ar ctr ml =) A is a slucent, pale ts Rn ercen, or yellow- eres chalced- PERNAGAR—Composttion 86.2 per £ mercury, 13 rth over one million CORU UND vn ag eg Angeles county by D ~ CUPRI ed dxide ee copper: reported from the Colorado desert. — CYANITE ee quantities of smal] rystals occur in the copner; gem value have DRITE — “Footpri rints fern’: some be been Cp gg by M of h autiful specimens have on the Majave desert, ge oa spain: was re- eported from San _ Diego county. The West American Scientist. k from Los t red ance 20 DUMORTIERITE: Reported by Dur- den as occuring 25 miles from Ogilby, on the Colorado desert. A beautiful variety is found near San Diego. EMER True cas North Bethe na. E—The United States pro- uced $250 worth of this semi-precious Crystals in masses have have been found in + mo, and associated with crystals of calcite from near the coast south of the report of the ‘state ’ mineralogist for 1882, page 207, and the fourth report, page 279 FL UORITE—Colorado desert, massive form GAL NAC bead sulphide, composed of about 86.6 3 in <4 a d in some portions of the Colorado or sat ne a see or less quant- ity o d ands ak oe andite. Prue, Conus nvare carbon, report- ed from Utah and Southern California. GRAPH HITE—Plumbago or black lead is lik mond, wit ‘alifornia, in some abundance, re- mains ian Yaar fig It also occurs in other S of the country, but no sufficient quantities am be of any com- mercial a rian GYPSU ESulphite of lime, when pulverized the p cent wat 20. ery a citar near Palenine on the placed u 4 4 21 The West American Scientist. 22 Colorado desert and Baja California. HALITE—The salt fields of the Colo- r add considerably to our com- merce. HEMATITE—This iron ore occurs greater sig ral on the ert and i Baja California, where the writer bral ned some specimens of hematite th quartz in the anto valley. E, or Muller’ s glass—A var- ribed occurring fine ‘sg of this stone occurs near San Die INDICOLITE—Blue Care Ages are San tall as occuring Diego coun ITACOLUMNITE — Flexible sand- ston been reported from the Pemba st but has not been seen by the w PeraR Bela California ET—A fine black jet, evidently in some quantity, is reported from the vi- cinity of Santa Fe, New Mexico. ALINIT m occurs in consid- erable abundance in the patty the of ently tested by the owners of the num- erous claims, ehadhon and so far seems we favor. i get lysis by H. Boedt- r & e the foll owing result: Silica, 62.30 4 ae cent; alumina, 20.50 S ® fe] 2) aa ot a a 3 4 N «J e in the wor new American industry inaugurated - ttracted considerable arned is eet the close of the century. LEUCITE: The history of leucite is very interest- ing Some 30 years ago Humboldt made the general statement that leucite occurred nowhere outside, of - Europe Curiously enough, until within a few years this statement held good. In 1874, however, Vogelsang found it in an Asi- atic baSalt, and in 1876 Zirkel announced its discovery in Wyoming ‘Another extra-European locality we leucite is ow announced by Vo Chrustschoff, who finds it in a lava a ; the vicinity of the extinct voleano Cerro de las Virgenes in Baja ‘‘alifornia. rock consists of an ash-gray ground mass sprinkled with rounded spots of brown- ish-black obsidian or glass, light specks of leucite ss are shown by ounded octagonal outlin ‘The ieucite is eile clear and a lens to have a x fresh, and shows in polarized light the — well known twining structure, even bet- ter marked than in leucite of the Vesu- vian lavas or of the Laacher-Nee While generally in rounded masses, the smaller _ individuals are apo freee, Spee in outline The oscope he ‘inclustongy bubbles,’ EE Cy ewis, repri i. ii e ro Nay ~~, 4 fink thick, 13? miles north of San Die y onte years ago, but seems to have mains undevel IMEST TONE_-About 11.5 eubie feet weigh a ton, or 174 pounds to the cubic foot. calcite. LIMONITE—Elsinore, Cal. MAGNET California. been — lost sight of and re- : quantity, hum, calcium, and natrium,” _Teported as occurring in Southern Cal- MALACHITE—Green carbonate of of about 71.9 r r cent car- or cuprite are the Colorado fo CA—The mica of commerce is a form of muscovite, but no mine in San Diego county has yet become a ducer. iotite, lepidolite, muscovite. MOLYBDENITE—Composed of 60 per cent molybdenum and 4 ‘O- and in and of a quality manufacture of fine w considerable Suitable for 6 ceurs on the Colorado des- . 2 © credited to the limits of the city of San Diego, but only the in- has been d _ ed as occurring in Beaver valley, Utah, some three miles from Granite Peak. lite. | See hyalite PECTOLITE—“A silicate of alumi- Has been : - ifornia. : _ PERIDOT—New Mexico. The West American Scientist. and Mojave deserts, and in Baja Cali-~ rnia. * 24 PLATINUM—This metal is found on- iti imes al- the largest e. an Ysidro, Baja Cali- fornia, associated with calcite. QUARTZ—A cubic f S number of varie- See agate, carnelian, chaleedony, jasper, etc. Rose quartz in magnificent masses has been found by the writer near Mesa Grande. radiations urma- found i county. The crystals measure two inches in ameter. RUBY: The so-called rubies of the placers of Baja California are not true rubies but only garnets, and seldom of value as ms, Pi) (4) True rubies occur in N. ©. and S.-€, RUTILE—This rare mineral was dis- covered by the writer at Mesa Grande SALT—See halite, SCHORL—Black tourmaline; quite common in San Diego county and in Baja California, disseminated ‘through 25 The West American Scientist. 26 quartz or feldspar. sep cwenan = inches in diameter have been obse TALC—A foliated variety cebbae at Elsinore, Cal. See anton 4: , Braz. URMALINE oa nek xi ian emerald, indicolite, rubellite and e w Mojave desert region northwest of Wands rbilt. WULFENITE—Very fine crystals of molybdate of lead were obtained by the writer in 1888 from some of the mines ascagg of Salton, in the Colo- rado deser METALS MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD. The value in 1898 per gram is given —as quoted in the Eurepean market. Barium, $5-71 Beryllium, crystals, $9 o4 Boron, crystals, $1.43 AE —A rare metal contained in minute quantities in lepidolite. It oo sie useful if an available sup- ply e eoictiea: $4.28 Cerium, $2.02 Didymium, $2.8¢ Erbium, $3.06 Gallium, $615 per grain. Iridium, $r. Lanthanm, caeniet. $4.28 Lithium, a $3 i Osm Palla 87 per kg. for sheet and raga $2.8 _ RUBIDIUM—One . ae rare Seas occu a ot wc Aoi ey hog lithia wine cea a $1. . Strontium, $6.1 secticag ta es Titanium, ¢ Vanadium, $1.43 ttrium, $3.33 Zscontain; rae PERIODICALS. FARM A r SENTINEL: Ramona, Cal. VERMONT JOURNAL: Windsor, Vt. BIOGRAPHICAL. ROTHWELL, RICHA Died ory ir, 1901. 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Real Estate, Insurance, Commission, Notary Publi P. O. box 694. Saner block. A. SB. ‘Poin: Insurance Agent and Notary Public. 309 Ath st. San Digoo WADE & WADE | Analytical Chemists and Assayers, 115% North Main st. (Tel. Green 1708), Los Angeles, Cal. Chemical Analysis, Ass saying, Milling, Concentration and Cvanide tests, etc. IF YOU WANT FINE MINERALS of the Black Hills, S. D., and every part of the world, agates, rare fossils found only in our ‘Rad Lands.’ all ki is oO “pei Ap fae aber Indian Relics, send 4 cents for m page price-] Me ntion ‘this journal ad you will ge ied . Fifteen vears in this trade. . SPILWEEI re B osracacs ea ee = cf ‘ per ne Titls) ), South Dakota is CITE, §. at ee es — The West American Scientist. 30 COPPER is KING [Abstract of a report by a mining en- area cres, 4,533 Grant county. Ne fexico, 2 miles we of the town of Penos Alto d 8 miles north of Silver City, the c y seat and railroad station. et. titude of une er ela 6,000 feet. G er one ads fro Silv City to the mine Permanent wa tier on the mines for camp e; suffic t to run a large smelt- ing plant ean be aeveees eer a smal ex- pen ee yritic-syenite hanging and foot walls, with Guartzite, porphyry, syenite, dolomite (lime), and r gph ore BOG ten. Pag fro to 15@ fe oe each, iron ca in Cidacek quartz. copper ore VS bunches in the seein vary- ing from 1 to 10 feet wide, The charac- ter of the ant is copper- -iron earbonates, showing a little ig and person nd cop- per. and copper sulphides below wa- a, ee ogee witter pet A a Ee per- age ron and xp at the a4 Ben ns the orOand, w tunn The zinc ony shows rat this eae: and will disappear pth, as is evidenced near- by : Bese Line sreelting, 3 to 60 per cent. cop- ¥ ntaining lime in a few places ad- he ey Balntnttes wall. Shipments of ore average § to = per cent. copper, iron an silica neutra Ore can be marketed at the Silver City reduction works. ost of ning, assaying and hauling to : er ton. On large shipments, after sie ar the cost will be reduced 25 p eENet profit per ton (on a 10 per cent. ore) ay greeny at $13. 3 per cent. copper ore can be smelted on the Fe hee and Marketed in the east ata t waite great deposit has the same geo logical and mineralogical characteristics of the mines of he ue m Wey The trend ¢ or the sg bedine rd form e dip of ore bodies te . from the vertioal wall. area p 8S. E. into the aacuuee ti Nat little gold and silver is found in these surface ores. Silver 6 to 7 oz.; gold a Surface workings, cuts, shafts and tun- nels. from 5 to 100 feet each in length or e have been made by old-time gold: on the be een ee rons approx- imate depth attained, 125 hobo i cps ponte pa will” be required. ine, oak and junipe od for all pur- d can be, pur- embraces | will probably open up pay "$50,000: six months’ developing Pe ; shipping. privileges. ORCUTT, San Diego, California. LAKESIDE HOTEL : é : & Lakeside, San Diego county, California. 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M. _ GRAY, SARA ELIZABETH: NELL PHILIP. STEARNS, R. - STONE, C neh oes a E. > ___—— BIOGRAPHICAL, et age ae Ais de e of the mos a eminent scientists, ,of ae Diversity of California, died aie 6, Shells of western Lake and Stream. NUTTALLI Idaho: by Oregon; beeety round- ‘ texture delicate, sur- rath°r smoo'h. L-neth 8, width 6, : math river, —— CYLUS er cai Ww. Cc ryon as identical wae CYLUS Relaonggesy hee Hald. Shell omewhat _ ponde: tes opts. mae. far back; ante- wubb teep and rectili ioe BYTHINELLA BIN , to nares eon vere e Length 25, height 3 mm. Living: Oregon (Nuttall). h 4, width 1, 5, height 1 m Ke Vallejo and coast re gion, Cali-. 6 minute, : : Arroyo San Anto Sante Cruz; Canoe creek; San Fr Senet Sacramento river, ‘California, ron. ANcyrt us SpEROTER “DUS Tryo: Shell very fragile, ly fr rare ad are; eievatel:, heaht 8 ce Length path vin, ee Umpqua river, 01 INEYI ae coe ats re! nde oe ar ariee Bolinas: Martins” Sante ampo, San Diego county (Oreut wo ous, its plane oblique to the axis of the shel!, the base of the lip being advanced ‘olor ecorneous, often black ee eous deposit. diame ie er ne: attaks river, Washington (Hen- ry Herska Pilsbry, Nauti ilus 4: 62-64, heastern aca mountains east of San ek California (Orcutt), CARINIFEX NEWBBERRYI Lea est Coast gee ao f 104, Keen, ee Shel! light horn co lo rreted, very inctay Striated, ah rene elow acutely carinated, oadly and deeply umbilicated, whorls. 5, flat above, slop- ing convex below; aperture large, sub- triangula Livi Klamath = lakes Oregon, to Owens river and Clear ioe. California, Nevada. Utah. Pec eIOPA ROWELLIIT Tr ryon. depressed, Wider oa n_ high, whorls 314, regularly c conv pidly en- ing; spire small, slightly elevated, cute, sutures, well arked; bas i ing i) cus. Color yellowish-creen, Passe eight 214 ‘Clot lake, Sabeachis ? FLU: MINICOLA FUSCA Hal Spoon epiobose, Par candy » Whorls 5, Pan- Ng, sutures very q, 1 apidiy a ; ; ¥Y deeply iepeinek aper ure i shteo br gmacg Migrant columella ene Co} r ‘0 light sreenish, he Rh amento af cial tak Cal Fer Bt river, Oregon. > oh gt Dak ~ PLUMINICOL, oo DSI Baird, Ke ine Wes ast shells, 63 + Livi 2 ee ie river, Monta PLUM NICo OLA NU Ei nate, thick, whorls fapex fFeneraliy "erode ed) conve fures well j pressed: ay *rture gi Poin widely ovate Greenish, apertnire blue St Height 16 diameter 8.9 ™m. alving: British Columb! tek Cane: imbia: Sacramento FLUMINICOLA \ TIRENS Lea. n, rest Coast ee ‘nick, apex eroded, who . on ee convex: aperture rey Bright sreen, bluish wit thin. The West American Scientist. 36 Height 10, diameter 6 oe Oregon and Horton Califor- ish dbleom meg CALIFORNICA Rowel Aperture suboval, obliquely expanded Cee aia left, poser iorly rounded, wider terior:y. nteérnal shelf réaé on in ng for ae about one- =atth the length of the tyes its > and obl.a fon - 2 e left projects nearly as far back he ap an obtuse angle. Structrre corneous, with is) é rown, opaque; inner Surface shining and purpl’sh, the plate hite towards th dge nd i ome specimens showing a t ckened, white semicircle continuous with its merzin across arch of the re Length 4 width 2, altitude 1.5 a ing: ns stagnant pondg, California. often on the ba f another. more back of IMNAEA ADELINAB Tr n. She thin, semi-transparent, body whorl large. wide, nvex; spire small, consisting of 5 convex volutions, attenu- ting rapidly to an acute pex, sutures impressed; inner lip thin, reflected, but f covering tha v ilical fissure, which Ww horn, polished within the aperture, sh a“ red within. Length 14, ies rg Picinaen, San Diego (Or- cutty, California. Tijuana, Baja Cali- fornia (Oreutt). LIMNABA BULIMOIDES Lea Pate? Sik Upper Missouri river to Coa- mbiz, river. San Di lego, California, LIMNADA CAPERATA SAY. Livin New York; fpr pine ds Michigan: to Hudson bay, and northe California. oe. EMARGINATA when present: te the length of s as to form an umbilic elle, obsolete; colume llar hecveuan deep- ly pimatginate, Cc chr race ous Maine; Lake Winnipeg: Wash- Hicted LIMNAFA HUMILIS Say Living: Throughout ine United States. tae California (Oreutt),. Vancouver is LIMNAEA LEPIDA Gould. Living: Columbia river, to Antioch, California LI IMNARA PALUSTRIS Mueller. Living: Teepe: Mountain meas California; New Mex tg rea STAGNALI Is Ex Living: Europe; Siberia; Ohio to Or- egon® Cal fornia. 37 it Sagat -dighens Coo , Cat-as-pr a a 5 3 faving: Leavin (Oreuit). Modes Sa tos creek, foe California at Belding). PHYSA A LLACEA. Gould, Shel! ovate-ventricose, ait ning, horn colored; a re ever acute; whorls 6, ated; suture decidedly im- pressed; cuMertinke Broadly five- sixths the length of the Shit ip thin, submargined with red; colum ella quite flexuous, Sd with callus. Length 25, diameter 18 m pene: tan ‘Oyosa, Washington; Or- PHYS DIAPHANA Tryon er, Cal‘ac pr 2d ser, 3: 103. Zoe 1:196. ; GUENDA Tryon. Shell variable in sometimes lindr‘ca! metim impressed; with growth lines; aos eeysiget wider ‘below, white without thine ‘a eds to ithe npteoh tah below. Len 1 ertu Solimetts long, ee ‘ving: Marysv: lle, Stockton, San D‘- ege California. Tijuana, Baja Califor- nia hyo PHYSA GA I Try _ Shell thin, Y iGnols neriated by the lines ody whorl inflated, its up- hors 6, convex, with dis- Color ee corneous, very wit es ‘ned with nex acute, tinct sutur es. lake; Becta Ana ate ae rnia. sol a, smooth and whor's s 5, gf aot iSgia : engt - bpanéeed: one haraiy”) per’ orate, me Col brane river; Eyre lake, Quaternary: Near Sersok. Nevada ‘Very abundant on the Colorado Desert Sine os silicified’’ eae te - Virtually only a distorted form 1 ee lk : terostropha: | “evlaentiy the same form ocenrs livins e Dos Palmas springs, Colorado D PHYSA. LORDI Baird a. Washington. Mumhoidt lake Ne- . TRASKII I Lea. very much _ infil ated, s‘riate, sem’-trans' nspal che stnut pulor: spire aoaieapivat repairs The West American Scientist. Osovoos, British Colum- ront. abidsf ‘e. (George H. ifornia CW, produced, pointed at the apex; sutures impressed; tacenyded oe ey last one Pes large and nflated; aperture pacer ae “expanded: ics lip conte: and Eg? e margin brown-banded; colum- ageehaed in the mid nd . hished’ Se are fold. Length 9, di- 18 Los Angeles river, ‘Cali- PH rie VIRGATA a. uld. otic Re Shell moderate, soli smoo longate- ha gi pera -colo red with lonsitaa oli- vac Saaipe gg ph ant yellowi sh- red. diameter Living: ’ Gila river, Arizona to 7 Webb). Los ‘Ananion and San Diego, C ifornia PISIDIU yi OES en Sie gene Hey California. : ara 2d se 217. Zoe 1:197. ‘show obtus ety “cart whe right AO ioaehea: rounded ‘whorls; aperture ovate! lav, som s cate expanded 4 arta: axis, five-eighths to one; % to &% in eee etamath lake, Oren Lassen county, Calif. Nevada, C veda river. : Quaternary: Cienega Grants & Desert.—T. H. Webb: W. P. margin forming a Ss) : beyond the edge te shell, eh ne - 39 The West American Scientist. 4G Pee OPERCULARIS Gould PLANORBIS TUMIDUS Pfeiffer. Shell dextral, much depressed, featicn. hell opasue, pale horn color smo la>, wi a Drominent blu keel at ky, densely and finely striated, umbili compressed line; tip sunken; neath cated above, slightly concave below; the periphery defined by a rginal, whorls 5, convex, subcarinated on each compressed line; tip sunken; beneath side, ra idly increasing, separated by a umbilicated for about one-t the deep suture; aperture oblique, bowie adth of the base, showing 3 volutions, rounded, somewhat kidney-shaped. Di- convex, oe wire rather rude and indent- ameter 19, gab ec, mar with irregular, coarse, mu ivine: oe Los "Angeles, Califor- ose Tbibe of growth, and here and nia. Nica agua woo Brydges). Guatema- ther few eoure. raised revolvi : color dark chestnut brown, a lit- pLANORBIS VERMICULARIS Gould. tle clouded; whorls above 4, slightly .con- Shell dome-sha ped, minu u part of the whorl h is eg mane the carina. Diam ht 1.5 Con mon in the waters of Cal- “hlaigihbed island. BIS PARVUS Say. “3 All British America oi babs ety Manitoba to New Mex filles canyo n, Baja. California eoreeity meter. Mouth tranezoid- e, its lips curve e the right attached ne concave obtuse pesphes ry of h one- third longer than wide; hird that o Cal. n i —Coo oper, Tyre tocaitiy: “With P. anitensis, : aguna oP isk. Reokpia SU ECRENATUS S Cpr. ~ t thin, horn-colored: sutures impressed: be whorl: cous within; 22 ne eig ng: irrigation, further supplemented by several large springs of crystal water. land is adapted to the grow th of the de Planted to nd vi nd prop- erly cultivated, fae bees ‘wRk cats tle, nd bees, a princely 1d ee derived from this ma €, or it could be e et br into a thriving community, supporting many happy homes This beautiful ranch is now for sale the Cc. Gordon d Co ny, rth street, San Die ms, On mention of this y the Southern . alifornia ne ay to Escon- e by te which flows into arge and nes is ream, 44 AN DIEGUITO. The gers San Dieguito contains 8,132 acres, of which about 7,000 are ca- pable of a hig egr aout vegetables, ae eae lands ha ange re u pe ve apricots, be ong ana grapes in bea The § ieguito river aaa Sa Eli- jo Sek run through the onberne af- aoatite pers rhein of water for ir- ation, supplem a ood agri ana wells nah 6 to 20 feet deep. Cottonwood and willows furnish an eee of wood. Thre houses, 2 barns, blacksmith pets ana sonee ee eee bee on for with the nch, sag hy now aes for $2 eee a ane —optional with purchaser to take pos- i Pric ce $8.00 an acre. ta Gordon Land No. 1202 Fourth street, San Guileovcks peaches, Se ANCHO DE SAN YS and perennial ngs, an dobe house, and primeval orch: pHa Pein lemons, figs and orden situa in Mexico, about 20 miles south prea east of San pe ats City, Cali- fornia, is an estate that might well captivate the fancy ory any eastern home see One-third of the land is adapted to pha ees the balance grazing land artz and placer gold mines, mineral ate abu wood, and a perfect climate, are a ng the attractions or sale by the H., Gordon Land 1202 Fourth street, San Diego, California EDITORIAL. It is our purpose to bring together in these pages descriptions of all the ani- mals, plants, minerals, etc. of the west, together with notes of economic and geographic significance, bibliograie synonymy, etc. The cooperation of our readers is in~ ri ted and our services in turn we offer The West American Scientist. in determining names of minerals, shells Book of cage oxtgos Sad eres and plants, or in any way that ma to increase interest in these branches. gnc car Ore ae Via: report Siebiig 2 gen’l 1864... : ° — apes te 00 Scientific (Aas ha yee Diego, Calter oe x MSH Societies. AMER. MUSEUM of NAT. HISTOR ARGENTINA cheap Soc Museo AUSTRALIAN “MU ‘Report of trustees for 1899. CALI FOR RNIA ACADEMY of SCIENCES: C’Y of Natural History: COLORADO College Scientific Society: ESSEX INSTITUTE: FIELD COLUMBIAN MUS peur en KANSAS ACADEMY of SCIENCES: THE SANITARION IS”—as MASSACHUSETTS HO SOCIETY: see it— MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: cane wiesitan’ sadte tad en a ority for Twe pe] o e a ° 93 ® 4 ~ aa ° 3 wm =) as so cient! : ag to permit Rev. R. B. Taylor, pe of the First Pinatas church of San Diego, i planning to spend his vacation this ae on reat ¢ elebrated Sierra San Pe ig @ tained all oy ‘primeval beauty. John Gray o ampo has a cattle ae be pric here and the big moun- tain, in the Valle Trinidad, and it was an unexpected pleasure to shake his ‘53 . eee rant ee eee he visited . corated with mea uae and French ki ndly placed at my Pflanzen zu ziehen COLLINSIA BREVIFLORA sp. nov. me townsite, which chances to have been er ir rich placer ground. wie am Kelch und Bimenstel ee 3} Most of ost of the mines here are consid- fast oder ganz kahl, 2-3 cm lang, ered stringers from a big fissure vein ttlich bis fast which it is pe ay will be a ahs ous 35 f 50 000 fe ©. veins Interrupt s Th es lost m of th the tia. sani and flowers that may lie in my patt CR; ORCUTT. _ Zwei neue kalifornische Pflanzen. ALIGERA PATELLIFORMIS Sp. NOV. Diese Art gehort 55 Oberflache. Ockenden, Fresno County, Seeing 5300 F., 1900 (H. M. Hall & H. P. Chandler, Nr. 86). WILHELM SUKSDORF. PERIODICALS. BRICAN BOTANIST: REV. of REVIEWS: oe ORNITHOL OG (% K. Read, Sta. A. 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Elkhart Normal School and Business ae haba Elkhart, Indiana. ee The West American alge REAL ESTATE. tom land, especially adapted for beans, adic re baie the mi sa lands ve nges, lemo a : City, and may be reached by the fording ample supply of ees ue ir- : Southern California railway to Escon- rigation, supplemented b -dido, thence by team, about 15 miles, spring, and v shoe from 6 to 20 f cet deep, on a go c Cottonwood and willows’ furnis abunda of woo blacksmith the H. C. Gordon pany, No. 1202 ice. ppaaier Diaa California, Yr g ample su further supplemented by seve eral large CHO Atos! SAN YSIDRO ee of crystal water. Six uare es (26,628 The land is adapted to Bees sitet th of forgiie pea ch 8 prance ee it ees d prop stocke a Sik. cat- e by the tle, nd bees, a princely in- pales Ne 1an2 Fourth st come co uld pe derived from this mag- Diego, California. ‘ nificent estate, or it could be converted ae : ng community, supporting py the H. C. rdon Land Company, No. 1202 Fourth street, San Diego, Cal Mining property a Peis ifornia, who will be pleased to furnish Oil lands in ilies or small tracts. yur re th further particulars, Investments recom s ‘SAN DIEGUITO. Dieg uito contains 59 Just a thought to give ~— tsa Just a hope to gild the Just a mae to soak of Jesus, Do you love Him as y may? ADVERTISEMENTS. 25 centsa line nonpareil per popes. CUTT, San Diego, Califor Mines examined. Conservative reports furnished. Rare minerals, meteorites. gems, pearls, etc. wanted ORCUTT, San Diego, California. The editor reported to the State Qa ing bureau in 1890 ihe report, a — ‘The for , ake very promis- ing [for the producing of petroleum]. About half a million acres have been taken up for oil in the past few months. The editor is in a company claiming over 20,000 acres. — stock will soon be for sale. Land alsc ORCU T, San Diego, ter D a A Gold Mine An e and conservative report Bich be made on reasonable terms. Address the editor. WADE & igh les Analytical Chemists and Assayer. 115% North Main st. (Tel. Ces. ‘1704), .os Angeles, Cal. Chemical Analysis, Assaying, Milling, Pe couiation sa Cyanide tests, etc. Mines Among properties which have our hands for disposal, = hwitan in a r, Go a, Molybdenite, Nickel, Sul: phur, Wotram e, Zin ould = sate - submit Bete paitions to 0 investors, or to lis Ist good im proved or undeveloped properties, The West American Scientist. 60 IF YOU WANT TINE MINERALS of the Black Hills, S. D., and every he world, agates, = fossils found only in our ‘Bad Lands,’ all kinds and buckskin I n Relics, ats for my 24 page price- -list. Mentior n ne journal and you will R ay wo- uil- r Uni- sublic scheols, museums and collectors suppli d. peut & b ing full. Fift L. W. STILW H South . 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Baths and electric bells. 40 named tertiary fossils, ORCUTT, San Biden. California. Purchase your FOOTWEAR at LLEWLYN’S, 728 Fifth street. e quoins, cabinets, wood furniture yp >» and other —— material for sale—proofof type on r ORCUTT, San resromigs “California. The West American Scientist. Vol, XII. No. 4. September, 1901. Whole No. 105. te Established 1884. ogists as a writer on the birds tr New s 1 TTS Mexico, ascend:d a lifty 7 noe tree to pro THE yp AMERICAN SCIENTIST, Wore-&. biroe Sheet, Je 1901, soiree ublished monthly. entangled in the rope and strang led in Price 10c a copy; $1 ar: $10 for life. tha presence of his bride Charles Rt basal OreMtt. Editor, ie ae Number 265 Twenty-first Street, DEAN, GEORCE W. scene San Diego Getornta. ok A. Born in Ohio 20 hae 1820, died 19 Ap = 1901. A successful nurseryman and flor- i well known to many as an ardent LIFE ha, pie cance carta of shells. : AHTL DANIEL ‘ : COOK "MISS J. uM. Soe Dede eget BROW} EDDY, } Ee the report of the U. S. 1475 Ww. oth st., Los Angeles, Calif. Spe ni. rae um for 1897 is a memorial of COOL. this eminent naturalist, ‘tonether with a GRAY, SA RA ELIZABETH: selection of his papers on museums and MARSH, BLSIB GRAY: on e history of science in America. NELL, P Portraits of the earlier scientific men, No. 3619 N. Marshall st.. Phila. Pa. and notice of their work in connection ORCUTT, ELIZA FASTIN: with ‘“‘the origin of the national scien ORCUTT, OLIVE LUCY: tifie and educational institutons of the PACTCARTD | J. He: United . States,’’ and eee Beg ceo EE athe eid ERNEST: natural history in Am for : ae Be stages ng? New York, N. Y. volume of great re orenrig ‘ant a worth : monument .to one who was — as a eS STONE, CHARLDS RE. Ian a i i Hy aL eee ain St., Andover, Mass a Purchase your e pubiished writings occupy 20 prebn of Ape eae ht at orial. Le CONTE, JO 3 fl One of the ae eminent scientists, of FOOTWEAR at — University ef California, died Ju uly 6, ¥ : ] s uguenot descent, and was LLEWELYN’S born in Liberty county, Georgia, 26 F 1823. + | Asa teacher he was suggestive, inter- esting and irs i i 13iring, and h 728 Fifth t t and and genial aria prcare wing mh him z the m jorerdadec: of is pupils. Geology, 1 Ss ree opt Statics and physiology were nee branches epee which he became author- The American Trader ng his ype sawn writings are: Semen: and science The best exchange paper detec —Plements o geology. Sabscri iption 50 cents ac yea with th thonant and its relation to religious j free exchange advertisemen Sig y of the principles of monocular < an ae ar vision W. A. Donnell, box 78, Tufts College, —Outtines of the comparative phys: ology Mass. V é Ff BIOGRAPHICAL. State Museum, is a oe entomologic erence mat this goa BIRTWELL, FRANCIS J.: entomologist, by E Well and favorably known to ornithol- Fett, with portrait. 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LPINX CINE nepaste The oyster-drill sah meg “Atlant c coast, Gsecovered on the in San bs uses, feattle, Washin ton; Catland, ° Califor nia. . / Fe Be ge edib Le sins o f the Pacifie coast "Chek method of transplanting ntie coast. U. §. Fish Heations the ne as ng: arraed Mart. San Diego, ae mage i cae Glew EDULIS “Linn, | rE t Sigs ra. cia uge. puicarey, to San D'ege, California. Close: y a ciriphan ppv Pate best oysters in Coke ie e rot und clam,” or “nard shelled.” TRASKIL Stearn all, soni roOve Sylingte rical, somewhat. Sloe ACTAE oie = =e il pen: -ntal lines din ha* s with a : Outer lip thin, si b 24, of bo co whorl 19, breadth 1? Shears. U S Na Mu pr 2%: 29% 7-298, of $ 1999) ey peje ibe marl: San Diego, Califor- nia (Stearns, Homer Hamlin). ‘ Gr ABON Bh ini CTOCABLATS sg, Cpr. 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CLEVEL AND C “COPPE R GROUP. res, patented roads from siiver City to the water on the mines for ufficient to run a large smelt- ag plant Aor be developed at a small ex- eenee Porphy ritie-syenite hanzing and foot 3 with _Guartzite, por! yey, syenite, porphytite, bodie lac sper ore in bunches in the strata vary- vag te 1 to 10 feet wide. -ir' 3 per cent. copper, iron and : . neutral. - Ore can be marketed at the Silver City ction uy hgig prott per ton fona 10 per cent. ore) seated at $13. er cent. copper ore can be smelted ground and marketed in the east = ‘ great deposit has the same geo- il and mineralogical ioe ergo ss 5 to 100 feet ss 5 in length or h, have been made bine ore oe in place, and their per- — cut, and 220 feet ef tun- the an be p es embraces peat ies 3 genet leopyrite in ‘thet exteneton of a tun Price, an 0,000; six months’ bond; shipping peices UTTEP, GEORG Silver City, puceeg ug properties eae have been i in as al ds for disposal, min developing New doxiog. a. ybdenite, Nickel, Sul- ae Hox ramite, Zine, We would be plea ositions ms investors, or to proved or undeveloped pr: Mines examined. Conservative re eports furnished. Rare minerals, meteorites, gems, pearls, Pt want ORCUTT, n Diego, California. r A Gold Mine A free milling gold ‘“‘prospect’’ has een placed in our hands for sale, said te prea an 85-foot shaft, and other work- — ings, with a phot ee ledge of ore eee rs ares a and conservative report will be made pei ble terms. Address the —— pe is submit bron: ‘ st good im-_ so 33 The West American Scientist. : 74 MOHAVE DESERT IRON MINES. known ex- -chief of the school of min an 1 a In May, 1882, the writer first oo New York, secured th the Mo e following re- the region Known as have des- sults from an examination made for the __ oe crt, in. San Bernardino county, Cali- following elements only: Metal iron, a fornia, and feund it to be in fact a de- gg4g. wan nese, 038: Sul r, .076; s li¢htful slant filled with a great va- Titanium, .02; Phosphorus, fete! per ricty of brilliant!y colored aes Th centum usually heed and thoray shrubs were = prog. Wwilalle: chemist of the Union mass cf deep indigo Mee nate while Iron’ Works, San Francisco, Cal, se- 3 ed of cured hers following results from a car or annuals unknown to more favored load Magnetite (M) and localities. pant ee fe oxide of iron, M The eto ae on either h of the 68.8, H 81.94; Proto oxide of iron, M 25.5, Cajon Fass were, still sere prod H 8.28; Alumina, “4 pve H 3.24; Man- M. 13, H 066: sumreer to the Jpeg be ker. hur, M .038, H.47; Silica, M .845, The tree yucca, the entum. rkings, ager ting a Ger PRES name desert somewhat of a Iron, 66.25; Silica, 1.65; Lime, 1.35; Mag- isne : one leaves the base Of nesfa, 3.32; Su'phur, .031: Phosphoric risncm th mi Seataiae how Wer, large areas acid, .554; Tatanic acid, ; Alumina, .84; yery ur interesting’ country—fron Manganese, .25; Iron poromtae: (2.213 horticuitu: Son standpol ieee met with, Tron proto oxide, 20.16; Manganese ox- ii its Sul will be jq aracte : a norma “the death i one of the ron lands. pe 75 The West American Scientist. 76 Just a thought to give — spe sn Just a es to gild the Just a bag to -t igoog of venta Do you love Him you may? 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We believ is stronger than falsehood, jable than fi ope recognition 0 ty. that Truth tha 1 4 this apparent The pene als devoted to light liter- e d by hundreds of thous- a naturalist by a oO novelist are rea ands, the papers of few hundreds. Our aim in journalishm is to popular- . to er ur wild past ts) y, and iner d’s treasures rs pepper ye end material pot hagi ei men is a review of our of new of ideas, will be means used to a com- mon en The reader must assist the editor in u xis iden tifying minerals, mals, in agli pen ion oa as medium of municatio ee “tend ts its greatest development leads an affinity with God. on ABREVIATIONS. es—Agricultural ee station aar—agro wet Oey Pe bos of) An an—ann anti nth- we _nrorology, anthropological, 3 Department of Aki s F MR ed ee Museum. pr—proceedin U— —unive rsity Zo—Zoology, zoological. AUTHORS’ LIST. This is intended (1) as a catalog, by authors, of publications received, (2) as atalog ur library n 3) ° 2 in fact, a comp’ — Pate tig ch cata~ log, as far as w ay be able to brin ng AL 3: “Som me laah o soils. U of Idaho aes b > 2 ORSEY, GEORGE istry oan elogical investigations on ‘the UR: American Plants For cies — A journal IRC Sa on edible rN. Y. state n 1900, ogy of the Striges (Strig- BOOKS. ag eg the lower S AND ine GAINES. se r 6c. Agricutousal, “Stockrals and Miner op. Paper $1, 18; Colo. Uich Washington, : pete oe ‘ Nebr,, Wyo., Maho -_ : Montana, ill., about 100 Pp. lturen im Hause und jhr ee ee 50 Q a - 50e. Bale Berry Book: 152 pp., 60 colored aphie de la famille des Cactees. Botany of Gaitogic. te D. 1853. : A ses les ako ee 15.00 oft t ent ite “sab to To’ a m: son, Tevised edition, .. a. Washington, Qelfornia Trees and we wers: Orcutt, {1 .10 te sm an Diegs Califor- Eh ert can ‘Plantag: nacéae,— to bi SBN ian MOF el sb. a:n2-127," t. 9 Gir Snare ees Commree 6 Olorado Sights and Scenes: 7§ Pp., ete, Gia and energies. Engelmann, George: Reprint of potan- ,_ Inout by Cal writings, 103 Plates of eacti 48 te) "Bt die ee COIN leat) Mee 26.00 nh physica} Epiphyllum, and other papore co weer ee 220 planations oe From m Summerland, to the st eae Alps 19 aple exis renderin Huston Kewensis: 1. oOker & Ja ckson, S tot the aver rage stun » i ee 59 mptions not antagonistic Manual on Orchard yee ne, 8 pp. 10 aid in the €xplanation of Parry's 7 otus Tiree: Kellogg. 2.2... 20 ea val Plant Rog 4io., 7. TULIUS: Thea. Sc Ree ey rts On Pasteurizing methods, ie Other p tty fil. 2 of milk in the home. MN J Ge Cia Reha s nd Scenes: 58 Pp., ete 05 est Ame erican Scientist, Nos. 12- 19, oC T.: es 67- opto ela eae Or ran chat ne a aes b 66. Zoe: Descriptions, no ates, synonymy, bibliog- 263 p. 139 £. a reese aphy, ete. “collected a nd pu uli shed in * pl eh number S, at $2 fer x ag ution of forest trees in Towa. alsa oRe ~Bo Reprint. I map. 20¢. ot Ot ~inctini OVEr 2006 OR Pec Di The West American Scientist, 84 Plata, Ecuador, FCM anth ig ac and Bubonidae), Am phil soc pr 38: t 43-109, wip Sicage t 10-17, oth: The o aibi Soyal cere- the Osteclogy of the » oipeckers. anth sr 3: 1-59, t 1-37. peal soc pr ae 578-622, t 9. 10 f. ON HOV Te: From the estern a York. Rochester —The osteology "of the cuckoos, Am Fr i phil Sc pr 40: 4-51, t 1- 2. epee ce va bey BO, nd and sea Mammals of —Exotic moilusca in eae Sci- hee of ee Sup- ence, 7 Ap 190 Synopsis. FCM ZO §) —The edible ams of © Pacific coast ~ and a proposed method ay Tepepient: ng e of m mammals cbtained by Thad them to the Atlantic coast. TJ, sh ', in North and South Caro- Com b 3: 398-362. ia and Florida. FCM zo sr STU AR Aen ay 5~10. —Forma Ss a preventive of oat smut ibou of the Kenai peninsula, Buy: Le ue Ss b iy FCM : ZO sr 3: 59-62, t 11- 13. SUK ESDORPE, WI Heo oS me Peon, Was ing = nderson: Feeding of farm —Zwei Car aes b 132. Ww. LS, Ww, ee cs il d ga 8 yielain ng formations of Ca aSes and the: r remedies. WN ifornia tate grad urean b 19, 236 tlustrati Ons and ma x CE OWE re Ow to de- WITHY COMB = es @ and Classify our common rocks. lO and s Sus: Sore aes b 67. alls hf Ao ok en ee many secs a Sale +a cE, Cal &5 The West American Scientist. ' 86 EXCHANGES ee: +s D aheiie api ACADEMY of NAT. SCL? 5 Javenpo Iowa. ales notices incerted free for sub- Genie aie TEUTR scribe Salem, Massachusetts. : FIELD COLUMBLAN MUSEUM: ERUNETTI, E.: Chieage, Hlinois. Ne. 353 Str ae tg don, Englan INDIANA. ACA DEMY OF SCIENCE: Nerth Ame Di ptera Saeinitzd on No. 525 Si 1h cinwepata Ind. ned mene wanted in exchange for Kuro- ;oOWwa. “AG ADEMY OF SCIENCE: ‘other insects, stamps, etc Des Moin lo KANSAS ACADEMY of SCIENCE: DOE, ALB TON: : Topeka, Kans Y Nic. * } Briggs avenue, lameda, Cal- KANSAS ST ATH HISTORICAL S0C.: Sturn le 4 Yoneka, K Shel. to exchange for shells. MASSACHUSET rs HORT. SOCIETY: : No, 227 Tremont, Bldg., Boston, Mass. FRU pee TORFER MEADVILLE soc. OF NAT. HISTORY: Phurm-Strasse 0. Bert! n, N. W., Ger- Meadville, Pennsylvania. Mie ing. 4 c SN’ ia orth American Papilionidae, Pieridae, MERI DEN § phd id Reig ASSN.: Parnassus. and Lycaen. dae wanted in ex- “® ae, Instituto Medico Nacional: ange r showy Papilonidae from Ja- a Clarkes Pacheco 3, Mexico City. ve, But tterfiiew beetles, and other in- scare: oie ka fa Sects im pe erfect condition, carefully MINNEEOT: A ACADEMY of Nat. Sei.: * named, for saie cheap. Min MISSOURI BOTANICAL, GARDEN: LATTIN, FRANK H.: orn Albion, N. Y. Price lists of books, a? soph are NY eee rebtifies Zoology: ‘tells, minerals, corals, curios and relics Cambridge, 1} assacht fice ; ’ oe W Mins i oo ae MU SHUM: ; F 52d A 695 p, ii: p. ill. i so ROC His Sink ACADEMY on SCIENCE = 2 = 3 xtes. Iowa. ROYAL GARDENS. Kew. England: Begs to exchange for eggs. ROYAL MALAC OLOGICAL SOCIETY: et Boulevard ord, Bruxelles, Bel- San Diego, California: ks. : “shell Y giants: may for boo s SAN “DIEC SO Society oe Natural History: weCripuoas or advertis sing space in San Diego, Californ this aeasine for books or si betnromk gees B nee! See. Soc. oi Rerpv- History: altel nta Barba Calif Hp . euer HSONIAN ‘INST iTUTION: EN aye L a . : SCTEN TIFIC. INSTA LU LIONS SC 2CLE" TH HORTICULTURE pu Under this heading will be ener ange 96 Seinarni: inarimachi, Shitaya, Takio, yhe principal societies, musevm or Japan. SOCIETE SCIENTIFIQUE de CHILI: . 588 Calle del Puente, Peppa 3 Chil. : aims in harmony with our ’ 2 ‘SO are Z00L0G 1QUE rRANoe veview of their publications as received. SOU poets poe emy of Sci. Ss “tothe Cali SCARE OF eee TORREY, ‘ROTA NICAL CLUB: * WISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES: U. gs. BAU OF EDUCATION : AGRDEMY of NAT. SCI of PHILA: U:- COAST snd GEODETIC SURVEY: ae Tar and Race eta. Philadelphia, Pa Ure COMMISSIONER OF LABOR i me ~ + U. S. FISH COMMISSION: oe ae ei ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC.: 1. S: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: Philadelp Be ae mare . U. S. NATIONAL MUee AMER. MUSEUM of NAT. HISTORY: J. S. NATIO! Central Par New York, N. hgrg ts oe ies AC EMY OF SCIENCES, ARGENTINA’ REPUBLIC: Museo Na- a a LETTERS: cional de Buenos Aires. Madison, Wisconsin. Casilla del Correo No. 470. ee rade a A Kn a &. WANTS. AVSTRA LIA MUSEUM: Sydney, Australia. Let pails tai be known—some of BU a Sapa LO New York NAT. SCIENCES: our reader y be able to fill them, CRLIFORNIA A CADEMY of sciences: “Sk and ye shall receive. ; apne Srane! oe, Care WANTED—for cash or in exchange:— COLORADO Co lege ‘Sclentitic Society: Baltimore cactus journal i Colorado Springs Journal of mycology —-Colorado College st rudie ain gna es i-ix. : ee og ge TI SOC’Y of Natural History: Californian aiackh magazine v 3 Feb’o4 _ Brose ey {STORY SOCIETY: Books on all branches of science. bi DANA NATURAL HI Albany, New York ODSUTT, San Diego, California. ‘ P The West American Scientist. 88 AGAICULTURE. eAgr-cultural College, Mississippi. AGRICULTURAL Experiment Siation: pe URAL EXPERIMENT Goniatn We TIONS. y ; Fruit station, Mountain Grove, Mo. The following list of stations sup- ported by government or state aid, and pomacees suhag gy gsorsahanons Bs e f J E addresses, es be useful to those who aie zi nde ca. ws si ee Per ie esire their ublications, which are AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station: ot i ; Reno, Nevada. = iD eee sent free to applicas re AL Experiment Station: ul of the reports and bulletins Durham, New Hampshire. re out of print, it is extremenly diffi- AGRICU UTUR: L Experime 4S, J verim Sta eult to cbtain all that have been issued, ACRICULIURAL experament Station: re missing from our library, AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station: ‘or ich we would gladly give a lib- Mesilla Park, Ne Mexic eral See gees xcereas Station: haca, New Yor eos ea these eal will ap~ GhicuL TURAL experiment Station: n our Authors’ ist ae neva.” New RICULTURAL ereimcat Station: AGRICULTU RAL Experi ment Station: uburn, — Raleigh, North Carolina = AGRICULTUE Primed 3 tati us Batic. Nie: AG Spode U peg Experiment Station: Agnlct ze station, Uniontown, Ala. AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station: E LT é ee nt Station: Wooster, Ohio Fayetteville, Arkan AGRICULTURAL secre naar Station: Stillwater. Oklaho eeermrent : agheye Sits, Alaska AGRICULTURAL Brenert ment Station: ment Station: Corvallis, Oregon Berkeley, California : tp GRICULTURAL E xperiment Station: GRICULTURAL Exneriment Station: * o pie ‘ort, Collins, Colorado State, College, Centre County, Pa. RICULTURAL Experiment Station: Station, San Juan, Porto Rice New Eaven, Connecticut. AGREE TRAY Experiment Station: RICULT URAL eenarineth Station: gston, Rhole Isla Storrs, Connecticut. : AGRICU LTU RAL > ee pe “ment en AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station: Clemson College, South Carolin Newark, Delaware. BICULTC CRAT, _ Experiment lation: nye Brookings, out Dakota. ment, Geo ation, Knoxville, Ter Sai CLA RRAL Experiment Station: Colleges Station, Texa AGRIC —s TURAL Exp Beles Station: await. Lozan, Utah, AGHICULTURA oe SS eerlnee Station: vzton, ‘osco 0. RICULTURAL Experiment Station: Station, baceeba rg, S rginia J piaseex ean, Washin ston, FUCULTURAL Experiment Station: Ex 26 Sn Station: 4 Q y fe enpent l east hea nos : ‘owe shapes Experiment Station: AGRICULTURAL Experiment Station: CPT ss 3 es fadison isconsin, Manhattan, Kansas. Station: WYOMING EXPERIMENT STATION: Laramie, Wyoming. EDUCATIGNAL, : ', La. How reial education, “hon par ik, gr: — the surest Ht Pl stone to business success. Elkhart Normal School and Business RAL , Experiment Station; Institute. Ut Park, nd. Elkhart, Indiana. CH EX PERIMENT Soe: hers. Mass Al, Experiment Station: ngton, Kentuc chy. iT 6 ment Station: uitural Cotlege, Michigan, CULTURAL Exp ment nt Station: 40 named tertiary fossiis, ORC UTT, San pases: California. BOTANY. WEST AMERICAN BOTANY. ag octet CLEY ELANDI Sa styles sto e; mature capsule m a Dally uadrangular, tapering slightly tuward e apex, opening to the bas y heup only 2 nee tip, and each valve splitting at i tip for nearly thi: same nee as ge heat separate as og cds fov - iculate at path encs.’ — Ss Sead . Garde and Forest, ster f 20 re rin 1895). t ide of on dretaghe, peak, San nia. BROMUS esf. Type fr Africa. abv tes Uv a Versity. XC. "Ritter. 305), Califor Var. GUSSONS Parl. Br ‘omus gussoni Parl Rar. PI. Sic. Sie. 2: Prod. e type, 4-7 tall, larger and more lax panicle, 1-2 _ lon g, with the upper pp ah tg aircon. ng. for Wa on. In- Popa Gus FI. Diego, ST ae CHAELOCHLOA GLAUCA Scri be ia glauca Beauv Agrort a St. (Or- nicum glaucum L. s ppt re glauca ites Pl. 2: 76¢ G89t). Eb habit hi glaucus Nash Torr bot. cl. b. LOIDE BR. ; yuerenam ipa perennial, 3- 7 re, from same base "area. spikelets » 4 wide, com of erlapping: fonrGiae = umes wong td Hota ew “usually Meheibe a short ng. Rescue grass. veh and Peer de W ‘de: ¥ ‘a atributed bi i Mexico, Southe Tex nd Yr ata neatteeit or cultivated Ag the oder and Au t ‘nited States, Europe, stralia, ikieion Tweesod s, Schrader’s brome, and {raban oats, * on A agr D- > E ROMUS HORBEAG Us L tromus mollis L, Spt pl ed 2, 1:112 a: Serrafalcus mollis Parl Fl Ital tnown also by the c = ears Braitie, Aus The West American Scientist. *” ly soft “ pilose- pubescent; ligu -2 long, laciniate; blades Lnear, ‘piloze. pub- escent to near smooth, <¢ abo 5-15 n ly t n 8-5 mm _ broad; ane Pisce tracted, cae Caace: abe pepo 5-10 em long, * broad ewhat spr hippos Pde: longs; palea a little more than 34 rei length of its glum Southern Gurcoe: from Maine to Firgint a, abundantly on he Peecific coast, fro ashington, to os Angeles, aang a BR OMUS TRINII Gia setum hi ray heel Trin Linnaea 102300 og ney barbatum Steud Syn Pl Gram Ssromus barbatoides Beal Grass N 2:614 (1896). * ado; = . fro Chat Sal Vv eo Seen yseretsidg (Q. D. Allen, fn inary N-colas Tsland (Balnche Trask ie rnia. pi ANTAGO PICTA Morris. Jtah, Arizona, Southern Califor (Parish 264 PLAN TAGO rte ee Mor tae TAGO ‘SPE OSA. ev atalina sland: Californta, ( . raat 2412). OBVERSA. Morris. Del Mar, San, Diego County, Cak: forn oe Sumner Angier 2 Calite rnia; ‘Orego = * 62 ety pager f of the school of mines tall yi ; ; Sulphur, Ntanium, .02; Phosphorus, (traes) per centum. f te annuals unknown to more e favored ities. eo etsins on either hand of the Pass were st 013, H 0&6: Silica, M 845, ul a, phur, .0 acid, .554; ae em 0; Alumin na, i Curry, of Pittsburg an ehanveia by Mr. ) There is an abundance of good water 275 miles from San at the junction of a proposed Ales nd 180 miles from Los An- to the mines with the Santa Fe, and a e Santa F ge uae oui can probably be aevkioed route, oc- _ the largest deposit of the property. < rei, ean b -r cord, group of copper mines embraces the only fuxing copper ores in the dis- trict care expenditure of $1,000 in opm will probably open up pay or bod! es of cheucetiae in the extension of tha tunn el. Price, $59.000; six months’ developing bond: pote ng a ivileges. Bees , GEOR Ai 2 Silver City, New. Mexico. THE WEST AMERICAN MINING AND EXPLORATION ASSO- San Diego, California. objects of this association are to the systematic es oe wes‘ern ‘Gnited States and gold, silver, re Yr, rahi ope Mexicd containing iron, lead, and.other metals. o able minerals, waiti ing for sine - ‘ 97 with capital and business judgment to No in- good mine. t ere are thousands ef allege ines or p pects many fortunes have spe thl laims, while valuable prop- erties are often ignored for years, until erty -e or education reveals their val- ge saa are few mines for ee poor man. It takes money volved. Itisa that ea are made, not fo nd insufficient means, are the sacks upon which many mining d , Sufficient to demonstrate the val- ndoned when fa- for transportation, or for the treatment of certain classes of ore, did nol exist. The ass wou is formed to pect ee prospects’’—to secure haustive investi exits and conserva- ts upon mines and mineral locate, sist aay or ot c s prove of value, ate and sell; : “pros- n e@x- ae be te engage in ones business that Senate oe se of he enterprise de- ben sreatly won the ability, judg- ow nd honesty of the managers— roints Se vital ‘fate rest to the intending irtvest2 Economical, sid bg honest effort will win success No o fars of “a re thing’, no big promises - hod accomplish- mple statement of ‘faith in legitimate Swetha a bus- jiness. Hundreds of claims may be ex- gmined before one of true worth be f und, but a single success will abu ézntly reimburse thé association ri The West American Scientist. 98 many failures. By keeping in touch with abet mineral industr es ia werhes and Am nd employing the ser- vices ee epee batiate of known reputa- tion, the expensive experiences and failures due to ignorance should be avoided. A capital stock of shares, half a milion place the association on a firm finan- cial is Subsertotions from ne to one hundred dollars ae month are invited, t all “equ shares to be then All stock will thus be caly d nonassessa able : of the association to keep in clo as with prospectors and discoverers of val mineral deposits It is not the intention to emp! r “grub stake’ prospectors, r to purchase with stock properties of value fic prices. qui prop- OE. a. =i purchase mo ate cost, from a la “as mea limited a temeteaie might otherwise re- mein untosuched. he essoici: tion wil also act as brokers for t ners 6 eveloped mines. n this w the in- terests of th prospector, ive mine owner, and the investor, may e best : efficiently served. Subse ae will be received by the following agenci Wm. H. Holcomb, ‘Coeaee Clerk. Blochman Banking Company. First National Bank of San Die ee utt, editor West Am. Stim Patan’ Shaffer, County Auditor, Ira J. Gray, Book Exchange, 1641 F st Ernest Schernikow, 18 Broadway, N. ¥ METALS AND ORES. TIMONY—An ore carrying about _ 38 a 40 per cent of this metal, and from « $30 dan Siege. and awaits development. f CAESIU —A atiNun. —The constant Tr oe in America y ehiakoe near * Denver —Cinnabar ipa! ore, RUB BIDIUM— io of the rare peas precious than gold, ai a oduct of the Lithia m is the yo inh “Sa Diego , iS situated in the Rey valley, about 55 ad. One of the t and best wate €d ranches in t hespersiaiad 13,100 acres Shea per- & Mexican grant, confirm nited St figs which flows into river, is a large and u hi neh. af- ample nieces for Terigation, The West Aifeeicis Scientist. rer ton in gold, Gera near piten ab an Califo bem) Turther supplemented by several Jarze springs of crystal a rare m eial contained The land is adapted to the Browth «ai minute quantities in lepidolite. Tt vines fruit trees in the Tes! ie sag breve ee dif an available Sup- perfection; 5,000 acres are valley lan , ‘ply existed. specially adapted t the culture 6? hile ead Ambly epidolite, corn, falfa, grain and fruits: 365 spodumene, and tri riphylite | ore ‘the prin- acres q a meé€sa or table land, partis ipai Ores of this rare Metal, the light- ularly Suitable for Oranges, olivae ‘known. and e © trees and bbls, paths } erly cultivated, and St h d aoe @ t erms, On mention of gazi ——_++¢____ SAN DIEGUITO. The Rancho San Dieguito contains 8,132 acres, of which about 7,000 are ca- pable of a high degr ee of cultivation. tom land, especially adapted for beans, ve Setables, and aif alfa; the me- Sa. lands now oranges, lemens, figs » Buavas, bd sence: apricots, peaches, walnuts an d grapes in bearing The S$ G tice, river and S jo Leaky run through oe ing ample “ties gation, supp by a oa pring, Are tetts from 6 to 20 feet ha d willows. furnis od. ve Thre ouse barns, blanikeses Shop, an other buildings. tools, wag- Ons, eéte., for sale C. Gordon Land Fourth Street, Sam pany, No. 1202 rnia, 101 NCHO DE SAN ¥ YSIDR quare leagues (26,628 acres) of fertile. land, with cre of ru ning a perennial s an ol use, and p eval orchard of olives, oranges, lemons, figs and grapes, si ted’ i Mexico a 20 miles south and east of San Diego City, Cali- fornia, is an estate that ight well no ge the fancy of any eastern home se One- third of the land is adapted to balance grazing jan mines, mineral t wood, and a perfect a oti are among the attractions. For the H. C. Gordon Land ae ny. No. 1202 Fourth street, San Diego, California. LIFE Jai ne a4th st., Los Angeles, Calif. xO0O M. Sony » BARA ELIZABETH: “ K UNZ, a oe Gat se ah & Co., Union Square, SH. BLSIB GRAY: ; PHIL N: satdhall st.. EA =e te TIN: Phila. Pa. ES bd ley cea ett * By ST EARNS, ROBT. EDWARDS CARTER 1025 st., Los geles Calif. STONE. CHARLES E i Main , Andover, Mass. ir gE One — of Paruguay. os Helvetia ee ‘ath: Diego, California. SHELLS. JAPANESE LAND SHELLS K_ oto Pehx mackenzii Val. trochula Ad 5 The West American Scientist. 102 quaesita’ Desh blukeana Newe 25¢ aeta Gid hirasei Gude mercatoria Gray connivens elegantissima Rve despecta Gra Clausilia jan Boett sieboldti Alycaeus inphonensis Bulimus rheitianus Kab Coelopoma japonicum Ad Diplommatina japonica Shells to exchange for s shells. Prices are for single specimens in good condition—slightly imperfect at 4 price. con for books, magazines, ete. os mesaleuca mitra paleaceéa ...... patina & V cumingi pelta & persona scabra & v limatula spectrum Alexia myosotis setifer........ Alyczeus longituba Mts .scosess...+0.= jagori Webr Amiantis callosa .......-. Amnicola dupotetiana, limosa... longinqua, pajuda, protea......... Ampiitroniiie palaceus. semirugosus Bttgr... kage cumingi i Sby Annies bse nus Mouss... Anculosa rubiei Ane ie ene pate 8, pairalelus Aap dental 10, na, undulata : Arca americana 20, ‘nconeeal io” occidentalis 15, pexata .....0... Auricula elongata 20, mide... cying: a B..tium nigrum Tua fee a saeeee ferrusacia- errr Ee gk eae ees Bu uccinium glaciale ‘Bulimus Hbsicus Rulinus hypnornm Busycon perversum Bythinela binneyi, intermedia tae Cerithium muscarum Gmel......... ~ Chiton dentiens Gou - _Hartwegii ae a oneta, sAisican moneys... .<.02.. Kiener — The West American Scientist. Lottia elects ASTAV pices s- sv eobseee uta Con plicatus Sby Mytilus pellucidus Nacella depicta &c.—see ERG Nassa luteostoma B. & -S......... .-. Natica bifasciata Gray Pritchardii Fbs uber Val Nerita Bernhardi Rec! Neriin na diadema Real tessellata Law. v. maculifera Mouss Neritina picta viridis Lam Norrisia Norrisi Sby Nitidella cilieavia Wan. ccs ehiasess Oliva venulata. Lamj....... .......... Olivella anazora Duclos......5.. bellula ama Mawe gracilis Gray tergina Duclos 23s Lam ecbouees a Sa Omphaliua ligulatus Menke......... Opeas achatinaceum Pir.............. Patella Masehlanicaiia icici, Planaxis lineolatus ld. planicostata Sby.................... nipritélla Fbsci20.-200.. 2 lineatus Da Costa Sree Planorbis compressus. Shutt Pleurotoma olivacea SHAY picuopcnie Prosopeas mi ei Mouisk Protinula violacea King........... encima aebiaeabe. Cour. espertina Ch Pustnn bipalatalis Btter sucina tee eee eee eee snes teh ene eee tenes vena LOMAS ee tes wee enees eevee aescises nan To eae ES tee rome ey seeks woe Sites ae The West American Scientist. ASTHMA CURE FREE! ; ASTHMALENE Brings Instant Relief and Permanent Cure in All Cases. a SENT ABSOLUTELY FREE ON RECEIPT OF POSTAL... WRITE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLAINLY. is nothing like Asihmalene, ur ed in not tel 1 ho w thank ~ oe) pervs from. 1.) 554 with p de sore sirons fee en See I despaired areg ured. [ saw your a acted like a charm. Ser bottle. . Dy, M orris er “REuiEr. Very teily yours, REV. DR. MORRIS WEC Dr. Tarr Bros. MEDICINE Co. Gentlemen: I write this testimonial from a sense of duty, having Piha g the wonde: of pay? ‘onan ple for the Magi of Pst i Ly ae fof is been afilieied With spasmod! m r the past 12years. Having exh ted my skiltlns well ‘ea many Piel 8 As see pia sign upon your Windows on a 1s tah s hice: me York, L at once obta gan: ; bearer My wife samnmonord Myo de about the tirst of No se eh oe radical improvement, After using ¢ He bottle her Asthiua aD peasea pi i se ies » from all symptoms. EF feel that TF can consiste ntly recoi see the es ine toal: uillicted with this Gistreaniag disease. Yours respect fully, 0. hs HELPs, AVON SPRINGS, N. Ye Feb Pe Pare Bros. Mepicing Co. * 67 tat oe N, ¥. entlem was troubled with Asthma for 22 ye ihave tried nume Aton have alt failed. Tran aseross youradvertise nti star ted with a ve te tae Toler og bee. I bec — oo your tall-aiah ‘bottle i = < ain ever gr tefu = i ears Was unable te work Tam now in the The West American Scientist. Vol. XII. No. 6. November, 901. Whole No. 107. Established 1884. THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. Published ae Price 10c a copy; $1 a year; $10 for life. Charles Russell dreurt, Editor, Number 365 Twenty- -first ¢ rig San Diego, California, U. WEST AMERICAN MOLLUSCA. COCHLICOPA LUBRICA Muell. Ferrussacia subcylindrica L. Heda Peak, Berkeley, Cal. (H. Hemp- hill); Oregon; Alaska. COCHLIOPA F eee Tryon. Shelf de whorls 3%, Pala rly larging; spire small, apex acute, sutures well oS = convex, except that reien bilicus is rhe ag rs ane. Noi sa ed. toward high, en- slightly elevated, Color Yellowishes green. re ane 244, larger diameter Clear lake, California? Pan- ge ch ggg Cpr. rt, suture indistinct; 5, San Diego, California to asus: atla. DIPES LIRATA, Cha Binn umella with 2 acute ap- — Aig are iene beet White or yellowish. tae? Pare ipo! 2.5 m mm. ying: San Diego, Mage gab pay Nagas : San Lueas, Baja Califo , So ALA STEARNSIT Dall. : Pacific sc r Free Inst tr III, os 892). SEL BH NITES gy ees eer Mazyck. : Shell ig essed, ateyg < horn- color, wit th. — arene roug mubecquidiatant,: treveaine ane, whiets are om coenuriar a ae ates): Haywards. Alameda co: ty, California het Mi SELENT URA Mazy ck, U S Na Mu pe 9:460-1 f (S886). Helix duranti Newcomb, Ca ac Ms (1864). Patula oe Tyron, gg zs — t 4 f 53 (1866). Mong. T. Rs ee duranti —— and Bland linear; the simple, o external nte Santa Barbara a i says: “spire not at all eleva’ pertactly ok plane above.” — ae seg ey, says: ‘“‘with very coarse — : e piabintet 6 5, height 1.75 iS mam. | ; Pilsbry, Phila ac pr 1889, <= 16, Selenites’ caelata — ae _of this. ‘SE SLENITES: HEMPHTLLI Ww: W. G Eastern Washington. — Beg mee ae POR’ TELLA Gould. yron, Mong T M igs $.3° 2, Sa ee ee ae ee ae Aas, cP RAS Sega tay me et FT SN 107 Macrocyclis sportella Gould. Whorls 5, the superior part of the last one fla x upon approaching the apert ure, rounded elow; very light apple green, dull, very closely and _= shar = edema reticulated by slight, revolving lines; rae ‘ate, umbilicus mod- erate a Pdosp meter 18 mm. Puget und ee San ies: California (Orcutt). SELENITES VANCOUVERE arge, whorls 5, the superi rt o the last one flattened upon approaching the rounded neath; bright ght revolving lines, suture umbiticu abe d a! moderate width 30 and Oregon; Washingt on; Ala aoka: . ewnenen Idaho. Macrocylis vancouverensis Lea. Tryon, Mon M 3%t3 igs et Ris has gg essed; whor mbilicate, Pale arn chloe! Diameter 2.5 mm. n Diego to Trinity county, California. 4 Macrocyclis ore Newcomb, Tryon, Mong TM 3, t 3 f 9. SPORTELLA STEARNSII Dall. “Shell o 1 unknown, is co tained iL 3 ig collection. "Dall u 885, t1998). 879, t 87, 12 SUCCINEA STRETCHIANA Bland. Keep, West Coast reed Is, 129. Tryo on, Monog T M 19, t 2 f lobose-conic, thin, paltantn shining, © Striatulate; spire short, obtuse, suture impressed; yhorls 3, convex, last oF arcuate, slightly thickened ponish oO e lor. o 6.25, diameter 5 mm. Sub-alpine Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada, 4,000 to 6,500 feet al itude, MYSELLA ALEUTICA Dall. Small, solid, ovate, white, overed with polished straw- > sei epidermis with usually 3 or 4 darker colored zones: beaks . ded, ends an as Ives moderately vex festh abrieer in the right valve, anterior ag r rrow and rather ir- ors “pase orem rounded, 4.3) alt... 33 porhie ro i ‘the "Ale eutians, The West American Scientist. 108 and east to Sitka bay, Alaska.’’—Dall, U 3 Na u pr 21: S028, Sl, t ST f 6 (1808). MYSBLLA PEDROANA “Shell i e, thin, pace: ap conc ite, with a Coneentaiiert ugose Gale- aan nish epidermis ae which, in the type, adheres a good of blackish oxide of por Bhi exe spicuous; surface with c €, "pg taagee incremental lines; inequilateral; the y terior side short, dorsal margins fopatene ipa mer the distal and ret a the which la early posterior one shorter and stouter, resillum subumbonal and very small; pr ieee Tpaosy' small, the peiler. scar lin alt. 7.3, diam. A aineie shell “found on the beach ae “San eee Sper ar BD Dall U S Na Mv, pr 1: 893, 881, t 88 f 4 (1899) MYSELE A PLANATA Dall. Mu pr 881, .892 t 8&8 f 12 Dall, U $8 Na (1899). ellimya planata use; Bering Strait, | south to the Aleutians and east the snargnae Islands, Alaska. as ee TUMIDA Cpr. , U S Na Mu pr 21; ‘S81, 892, t 81 £7 149 Tellimya tumida Cpr, Suppl R_ Brit Assoc 1863: 88, 97, 129 (1864). Phila ac pr Ee Alaska peninsula, south to San Diego, California. in, mod erately compressed, higgene | covered with a conspicuous, thin, nkled, glossy Derios stracum; i both b Straight; beaks inconspicu won ae with strong, irregular increme but no radial sculpture; & valve with right bids with the tooth _ oped; right dorsal va eotu al of the left vate a little, but there are no — lamellae. Lo 13, Dr e * Mu pr 21: 888 8g, t 87, tl 8 (1890). PRYCINA: RUGIFERA tg all U S Na Mu pr 21: 887, 880, t 87 f 4 1s98), Pythina rugifera Cpr Supple R Bri aenes 1863; 602, 643 (1864). Phila ac pr 1866: Lepton rude (Dall ms) Whiteaves y Progr Geol Surv Canada 1878-79: 198 Lives attached to the abdomen of Gebia Bee cece Dane, a burrowing crustacean. uge mh Pa - De Tart Bros. MepicineE Co. t radical im ement, er u one bottle free from rom alberto. i eclthat I can consi scar. ia his distressing disease. * De. TAFT ca x nal Co. 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A THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. few crystals of gem quality, resembling pois oa nthly. those from the Isle of Elbe have been Price 10c a copy; ; $10 for life. found in the county. he largest wy Charles Russell Or Greuit ” rst Street, ervsiiala measure two inches in di- U. am San Diego, Califor ia TOURMALINE, AGEN, beberbeer oe quite co in San Diego county and in e tourmaline is one of the most in- Baja California, dtesecciuenaae through erecting of gems, yet but little known, quartz or feldspar. Crystals six inches especially under its true name, its di- jn diameter have been observed. versity of color having enabled it tO p, 4 © Hamlin oubiisidd in 1873 pass under a multitude of names, a small book, ‘The Tourmaline,’ of 107” Black and brow tourmaline are pages and 4 lore lates, devot usually opaque, and no mainly to the beautiful crystals of this hence have oO valu s gems. The transparent stones peach ae fund tn Mattie. 1 tee page available for gems are found in Maine, a Connecticut and California, an - in i light ° Brazil, Russia and Ceylon. col- ‘It seems as though the li o ered varieties are a Merieatis un- heaven was reauired in the production Rik htee followin of the gems, as it is for the marvellous ACHROITE lonloniees ee ne)— 1 dis covered a tation. Thus far, nearly all of our of , a” ed with other lithia tourmalines the cheng of the earth; and it E The em- ange as ain gh the contact of the « & blem of the Brazilian clergy, is not an air or a ray of sunlight was required ld proper, a e colored to build up their forms and perfect } tourmaline. A fe reen tourmalines lines. ra) in the, thousand mines : ve been fo i n Diego county, along the slope of the Rocky Mountains in the lithia mine at Pala, and in sev- the a Janae st vanishes eater the depth eral other localities, some of them of of 20 or 30 feet, while the same quartz the finest gem quality: One beautiful cepa in te beautiful pac definite 5. specimen’ showing a perfectly flat but colorless forms in the depths of the termination, is b er e deepest .min a the end, then a. band of achroite shading sapphire belong to superficial terrains; into rubellite ne aa fractur An- and we find that the rule of shallow other specimen is en at the center, deposit relates to m the ge with a thin outer ian of topaz B eryl of Si- lue tourmalines a beria, the ehrysoprase of Silesia, the eported as occuring in San Diego turquoise of Thibet, or the opals of of RUBI LLITE—Beautiful radiations the earth, and are never found below “ and masses of crystals of pink tourma- a certain depth.’ . 115 ver Cummings ington, in Birds = Mature for i eats 1901, erystals are teat in the form of long, slender prisms; ae often have the seme rity a ae ently colored i differ Baiariecs at the o been known in wee Of red .t in the 9 ig lilae Se ulmniiee are pote Bit of gem but are now to b found in seatty every mineral cabinet in the world. At Mesa Grande, east of San Diego, e most Accept deposits of f£ener- of feldspathic minerals (3) d, and i 0 Sranite foundation, contai asses lepidolite, angula tal quartz, and ne, and other min his matrix were the beau- ‘tut ‘wari- colored erystals f tourma- saad of the finest #6 ale ever .F ORCUTE., ledge, were ound. The West American Scientist. 116 HOUSE HOLD PESTS. ‘The Silver Fish’ belongs to the low- in or near t h to the extrem- ity of its body, and often one of th mos eae eso ae enemies of books, ard in m ums, startet Solus. he more rarely stored food substances. The tire surface of the body is pvety with very minute scales like tho a moth. igen he se eae 2 eoriincat antennae, an tip of the body nd he are 3 oo rie: sien appendages, one pointing directly backward, the ther 2 e ing out a consider- ble angle; 4 shorter appendages are near; 6 1 spring f the thorax, and, while - very long, they are pow- erful eee ia the insect to run wi great oidit He cen goes ee paper is very attrac- tive to this insect, while it often causes a seale off by i wall paper to by its feeding the starch paste. Pyrethrum fur- nishes a best of control, wherever it can be applied. C. L. Mar- latt des afta and figures it in bulletin Yo. 4, new series, division of entomol- ogy, U. S. department of agricuiture, from which the above n are ma on M0 neni is s Géaity Neeaiecob METALS AND ORES. ANTIMONY—An ore carrying about 38 to 40 per cent of mp cme and from ~ to $30 per ton gold, — rites San Diego, and a nite develipns A M—A seats in minute quantities in lepidolite. It would nreve useful if an available sup- ply existed. LITHIUM.—Amblygonite, lepidolite, spodumene, and triphylite are the prin- cipal ores of this rare metal, th2 ligat- est known — se ICKSILVER, —Cinnabar principa natin sine of the rare metals, more ‘ees ious than gold, oceurs as by-product of the lithia mines. is the 117 LOUIS AGASSIZ. - Part of an address by David S. Jordan. Teacher’s Institute San Diego county. “T have known and loved as well as a small man can know and love a great one, od man of ae I am to try to giv cture—probably the greatest man in se history of educa- tion in America the button quite SO 0 tiehthy in — the house of the ore Darentage. "and early — of this man an read in Pe cyclopedia. His other was ess- ed of a senda nto ae — and “this was pena ah so A boy : ~ Noates that he een ‘sometime oe said that Lewis Agassiz was good good citi- nd the oe tial Peeks Hist oe his ure, never before cted. jee Geeeceed hits eapectiity interested him . was the nature and m d a mass e he et worl of paldaie cmicciion which could _ The West American Scientist. 118 er have been gathered but by such rece’ ation ‘At last ke went to Pista and lived in the Latin quarter. While there, he met Humboldt, yas ut ake a tour in Liberia for scientific investigation Agassiz wished to ac- company him, but H oldt chose a better-known ma the same ime, two y n and uxley, applied for gape der i po se as they were bere wathotaners well know “Agassiz, later, kha to os and thence to Amer He to America for two reason a one te natéde the glacier formations; second, to see for himself the great republic, fo was the child of the little Swiss re- public he gh offered one of the finest of ourtoean professorships, he decided to remain in America and become an merican the breath of freedom air of A pes 2 and se. the agg and thus restore the symmet- ee work of this new man was en- tirely different from anything pre- viously known. He went out and talked with fairness and was ready to learn from every one he met. He at- tended teachers’ institutes, and gave- to stud n ing that t ; be used till all ndependent investigation ade. “In nie ‘this great educator decided to hold ort of educational camp- meeting ie phar es of Bigten se < in Ig natural history. For his class he se- lected thirty y great glacier where ae a built his Gaatuiite rt, ie barn and the shed of the sum- he ure, Was held the grandest school, under the grandest “wha eel Bigs history of Jf eget in has ever nown.” a oe TALKS ON MINERALS. ‘weanis Institute, Diego county. u n Land oF The West American Scientist. 120 ious rege A nd Eas aos that are pro- ed nd tha duc t they ‘ should weed a te orb Ase ae idea of the ere agg where these minerals are found. illu “apa a extent of this mae in Californ get get statistics pear d ‘hi ing’ au leer year 1300 show that the ub- re we roduced al pig sei Ae a Reiaton oe 3. ao i Er are also to be found tas hick exist in quantity, which, owing to local conditions, can- not at this tim but which treated successfully ture, aS modern metho ar fu- ds are ad- si d. He mised of his department in making the col-+ lection if the = would see that they were put to . H. Holeomb s ike for some utes on the “subject of the ee “of this county <_< _— SCHOOL GROUNDS. R, C. Allen, at Teacher’s Institute. “In the matter of seria ge and 2 er i character of country schools I believe hve our stat makes I2!I “Tam informed our page eae al that in some districts he finds laxit a ese oy my the matter of filing their records. It pining occurs th records are feet nd this causes serious inconvens Leniie im, also to the new clerk, fa pre~ loss or destruction. It is hoped that neha clerks will make use of these filing THE QUEST OF. OF HAPPINESS. Part of anaddress by D. S. Jordan. wk in this address to make a plea for sound and sober life. I bas yi plea on ent facts: t lean is o be stro one can secure hap- piness mikes Cagia it. “Am the Pea Gali rights thers which gives him liberty, and the y. M ss an old If ood ance some rt of is true, this truth i ld as life itself. An eated many times to each men. e la aws saa en ee is t sis of success happ The s no gp hg out expenditure of enrgy, and vs ae strength -omes om e T the habit - self-denial Swehteh plies the advan- ge to m call self-made. He mae earns rte realta of money and of The West American Scientist. 122 tim nd he has learned to resist the laseucalauh to throw either He away. has learned to if “no” and to say it at oa ght tim 3 v wena: have the Puritan must h i- and will broad roads and hewees to w tips 23 and misery, ie mess and strength. er ie no eennmeus that does not peat bien denis}. “In general, the sinner is not the and birth, but you and I ot meet them very often. The sinner is the man who cannot say “no.” For sin to become wickedness is atter of slow transition. One virtue after another is yielded up as vice calls for sac prim tiv m make a short c yield to iabsii atio ises pleasure without earning 7 e omise is kept. e earned pleasures ere poe 6 eave “ ; brown taste in the mouth”; their rec- ollection is cfm or in the. morn- ing.’ “But tgs happiness rage: } action. mind is rest witht es es itself ‘nak its consetousness is filled with the joy oe liv Dr sited the short cuts pleasure of est eet ene Justifies gsi and makes it wel- Gamble g—the desire to get some-— thing for nothing. Burglary te: lar- e same notive e dif- y social ‘customs . cet 123 The West American Scientist. 124 path is white with dead men’s bones, Just as hoa love is the most power. ful influence for good oe t can ‘a a an’s counterfeit the most Su eaveuthe. Love is a sturdy p of vigorous growth, with wondrous promise of h Aaa books scribe it, it bad enough, but precocious : Precocious sae = So on. id lw s worth, eavicy uk it before its t Feo matters of good taste and good char-~ acter ntemperance—The of intem- stomach. A c eoffee may give an be. es white lie oil hi se gp or things are ne s a phys gy. ; makes no attack 0 on the useof c! na at dinner, or beer as medicine. This i a matter of iets: though not to