wey ott 3 VotumeE VII. “SEPTEMBER, 1890. WHOLE No. 53. a ee pe West + American + Scientist. — A popular monthly review and record for the Pacific Coast. Official Organ of the San Diego Society of Natural History. CONTENTS. PAGE ieee COCCION 1TO0? CAINOIMA os bo... . candela eevee D. W. Coquillett. 43 i CTIIETOG TR eases a cna coe «cle ptiee ee dete Wa e's C.R. Orcutt. 45 An Outline of the Geology of Vancouver Island,... ...... M. Lopatecki. 47 ERTS REIO SILTUOOEN GNC). Limvlace Wes 0 sss nev cscanelin bes aasie'sd C. R. Orcutt. 49 Proceedings Of Scientific SOCICHES 6... ee ha hee rch ete ec esse ccsecs 50 Tea Ose ea Pe eb tik ccs WOR RGNIPS Un ee acuecs Ganewveees 51 RIGS SLs Lig utd 6.4) arn)x «4h What gle cia tile. 4 Geese’ dist'vent cc's 52 ACR ARM NE ie TRL ga Se SU pelts at Castle Rock. Dr. L: G. Yates’ manuscript list shows a large number of species whose northern or southern limit is restricted to this. county. The members of this society should take special pains to col- lect and place upon record everything in the shape of shells and other invertebrate marine animals found within the limit of . this county, not alone for the reason that our society should possess specimens in its collection, but also that the already large and interesting series may be increased and their value to science en- hanced. Many of the species accredited to our county are not repre- sented in Santa Barbara collections. The society was favored by a visit from Miss Yda Addis, pie gave an interesting account of some of the incidents of her travels and researches in Mexico, in connection with photographs of in- teresting ruins, etc., which she had visited. Lorenzo CG. Yates, Secretary. EDITORIAL. Mr. D. W. Coquillett sends us a specimen of Bigelovia belch: lepis Gray, from a valley eighteen miles north of Los Angeles: city, where it grows in clumps about five feet in height. Two species of scale insects—one probably new—were found inhabit- iting this much branched shrub. | - Dr. A. Davidson sends us Cheilanthes Cooperae from Ven- tura. Among other plants he sends us a new species. of Bloom-. erja which will be published later. The editor has had the pleasure of visiting Aete of his several places of business during the past thirty days. Our San Fran- cisco ‘office was found as: lively as’ usual ; the San Diego’College _ of Letters busily preparing for the return of studentsand new lite : our San Diego office is migrating, while at Orcutt the quantity of ink, paper and postage stamps Consumed is enormous. : A pleasant day was spent in August with. Mr. Geo F. Kunz, who, fortunately for us, was persistent enough to find the editor. We hope he may find time’ to visit us again ‘soon, vies iach a os at our back epliinihye ett j SP: The.~ Vest. wd MERGIN Serentist,. a Apliets aaah . tes ue NES WS. oy ; ae We hee to soon fave ithe mesure of publics some: of the papers read before the Gray memorial botanical chapter of the “Agassiz ‘Association. G. H. Hicks, Owésso, Mich., is the able president of this: chapter, ‘who should be addressed by’ ee wishing to join. -Thé editor is always glad to identify plants or shells from the west for anyone. Frequent absence: prevents promptness in cor+ responding at times. Among the various uses of celluloid, it would appear to be a suitable sheathing for ships, in place of copper.” In experiments by M. Butaine, piates of celluloid applied to various vessels ‘in January last were removed five or six months after. and tound intact and free from marine vegetation, which was abundant on parts uncovered. | That the eastern half of our continent is slowly foundering . in the Atlantic is a fact well known to science. The rate is slow—a few inches in a hundred years—but, like Mercutio’s wound it is ‘enough.’ Its effects do not come insensibly—like a thief in the ‘night—each generation is amply able to take care of itself by means of which it is unconscious; they are felt at long intervals in storms whose devastations af greater’ ‘and eatend further. inland than any previously experienced. In France when a patient is under chloroform, on the slightest symptom appearing of failure of the heart they turn him nearly upside down, that is, with his head’ downward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him, and such is ee faith in the efficiency of this method that the operating: tables: ; the. Paris hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be Lm vated with one end in the air, so as to bring the patient into a position resembling that of standing on his head. Dr. Edward Palmer and Mr. T.'S. Brandegee were to leave San Francisco on the 25th of August to continue’ their botanical explorations in Lower California and the Gulf regions. - M. Crepin, of the Jardin Botanic, Bruxelles, Belgium, desires — specimens of all forms of North American roses. This eminent botanist has made a special study of the roses ot the world for over thirty years. Botanists are invited torespond to his request for specim ens. “The new building of the ‘ © Cal. Academy | of Sciences ’’ is near- ing completion. ‘The marble stairways will cost more than all its past contributions to science ! | . The. California State, Museum. is Shia to gait the finest. col- (eotn. of minerals in the world. All the collections i in the. ‘State Library. Catalogue. pe 53. Museum. are well displayed—better than any other collection on the ¢éast. “ The entire collections are valued at over a quarter ofa. million of dollars. The State Mining Bureau is ae a good work:in building up such a museum. CA TAL OGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE WEST AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURE AND ART. PART is We herewith commence the publication of a list of the current additions to the editor’s library, either by purchase or exchange. We hope to give Part I of this catalogue as a supplement as soon.as we find time to prepare the list for the printer. 4051. Catalogue of minerals for sale by Geo. L. English & Co., Philadelphia and New York. June 1890. 15th edition, 8, 100 pages. Price 25 cents (paper edition free). From Geo. L. Eneya & Co. 4002. Cucurbitacearum novum genus et species. Auctore A. Cogniaux. - Advance proot from the Pr oceedings of the Califor- nia Academy ot Sciences, n. s., vol. III, 1890. From T.S. Brandegee. A new genus, Brandegea, is founded on Flaterium bigeloy. 7 Watson. 4003... Catalogue of the library of the California Academy of Sciences to January 1, 1889. ' Ext trom, Proc. Gal. Acad. Ser:)2, vol. I. ‘From Mrs. T. S. Brandegee. 4004. Materiaux pour servir a l'histoire des roses par Fran- cols Crepin. Ext. Bull. Soc. Roy. de Bot. de Belgique, vol. XV, pp. 371-462. 1876. From the author. ‘4005. “Note sur les recentes decouvertes de roses en amerique, pat ‘Francois Crepin. Ext. 1. 'c., OCT) 146-149; 1882. From the author. | 4006. Nouvelles remarques sur les roses ameticaines, par Francois Crepin. Ext. l.c., XXVI. 1-10. 1887. From the author!, oe 4007. Examen de quelques idees em ses par MM. Burnat et Gremli ‘sur’ le genre rosa par Francois Crepin. Ext. 1. ‘c., XXVH. ‘1-25. 1888. From the author. | 4008. Nouvelles remarques sur les roses americaines (suite), par Francois Crepin, Ext. Lc, XXVIII. 11-26. 1889. From the author. 54° Tha West Amer ican Scientist. - 4009. Sketch of ‘anew Bi ORME & roses. By Francois ! Crepin. Reprinted from. the Jour. of the Royal Hort. Soc., pt. y 3, vol. XI., October, 1889, 12 pp. From: the author.: 4010. ouine ace of socialism. -By A. Schaffle. Trans. lated from the 8th German edition by Bernard Bosanquet, M. A., New York. Humboldt library, No. 124. 1890. Price I 5 cents. From the publishers, 28 Lafayette place. | Aes 4011. Darwinism and politics. . By David G. Ritchie, M. A., and Administrative Nihilism. By Thomas H. Huxley, F. R. S., New York. Humboldt library, No. 125. 1890. Price I 3e cents: From the publishers. pe 4012. . Physiognomy of expression. Bs, Panlb Manecen tenn Part 1, 2, New York, Humboldt Pray, No. 126 rogeks num- ber). Price 30 cents. | ‘4013. Same. Part 2. Price 30 cents. From the publishers. 4014. Cactaceous plants; their history and culture. By Lewis Castle. With numerous illustrations. London, 1384. 8vo. 93 pp- Price one shilling. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. _ 4015. Organogenie de la classe des Cactoides (Cactees, Fi- coides et Tetragoniees), et de celle des Berberinees (Berberidees, Menispermees), par M. Payer. Ext. des Ann. des Sci. Nat., XVIII, 1-24. With 6 plates. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. 4016. Enumeratio diagnostica Cactearum Hucusque Cogni- ttarum. Auctore Ludovico Pfeiffer. Berolini. 1837. 8vo. 192 pp. From Dr. P. Radenhausen 4917. Revue de la Famille des Cactees avec des observations sur leur vegetation et leur culture, ainsi que sur celles des autres plantes grasses, par M. A. P. DeCandolle. Paris, 1829, 4. 120, pp. 21 plates. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. _ 4018. Monographia Generis. Melocacti. Pancione Es A. Guil, Miguel. 1840. From Dr. P. Radenhausen. - 4. 120 pp., II plates, cS 401g. Cactearum aliquot novarum ac insuetarum in Horto Monvilliano cultarum accurata descriptio. _Faciculus primus. Curante C. Lemaire. 1838.4. 40 pp. and plate. From - 8. ‘@ Radenhausen. — “4020. Cacteaé in Horto Dyckensi cultae anno 1849. ‘Jos. De Salm Dyck. 1850. From Dr. P. Radenhausen, KLE ps “ LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT, No. 2. nah E aes by the Students and Facu a Te the San sg te College ( vf Letters. ey Poets’ Corner. fed d °; ~ CARMEN. "|For dear Robbie and his_ kicking il , | - COW. 3 Cano carmen sixpence, a corbis plena| But oh the heartaches! Oh the back- rye, aches! Multas aves atras percoctas ina pie;| Shooting pains in every pore! Ubi pie apertus turn canit avium grex; | Oh the blisters that the sun makes, Nonne suavis cibus hoc locari ante | As it rakes me o’er and o’er! eae , a" ‘Out upon those old bucolics! Fuissat rex in parlor, multo de num- — Qyt upon the classic vine! Ee ak tumens; _Naught I swear, but alcholics Regina in culina, bread and mel con- | ee inspired the muses nine! sumens; Oh to end this fraud of living! | I can! I will! Oh wretched sinner! _ her clothes, Pll drown myself andend all grieving (uum venit parva carnix demorsa [py the windmill tank ,—after dinner. est her nose. pee uae aan Mater Anser’s Melodies. PATE LE Ms Ancilla was in horto, dependens out | ee At the beach during the wild years GRAPE PICKING. | long gone, , Syee | Mu Nere Crew mo. tree: of, mesa. OF Could you see me now, Professor, | lawn 3 Bending as before a shrine, Till they founded and built the S. D. Gouging with a frantic bluster | College, At this tangled mass of vine, _ And planted the umbrageous tree All the time ‘‘a makin’ mashes’’ of knowledge. Of my only suit of clothes, In my fingers cutting gashes, ——_———$$_$_____— 'Though some men dazzle like the Burning blisters on my nose. ~ moon, You, perhaps, would scarce re-_ It is not Best to make a ite of member, | them, How once you taught that Lae 'For, like the moon you may wad joys — soon, ; Alone were found in classic labor, You’ ve only seen one side of them. Plucking grapes like Virgil’s boys. Tid- Bits. For, truly, Virgil owned a grapevine, | ie Biapdaabosats:.a rusty plow, | Every good Mussulman must Mec-: And warm with love our fond hearts | ca peerage: ae At Home. LOCALS AND PERSONALS. ‘‘Hans vishes to eaten vatervellion | py you behind 7 o'clock,’’ was the characteristic invitation that each one of we students received one of these warm, summer evenings. The watermelon eating took place in Mr. Grolis’ empty cottage where the boys had waxed the floors for dancing. After a little dance we ate a “ ’mil- lion’’ or so apiece and enjoyed a lively gamme Sot .. blindiman Ss spudt, Thank you, Mr. Hans. The picturesque beauty of our bay is complete with the white wings of the college boat. During Miss Helen Givens’ visit at Mrs. Cogswell’s, Miss Mary Cogs- well, one of the resident students, gave a delightful ice cream party in honor of her visitor. Pleasant games in the Dr’s. beautiful home made the evening pass almost too quickly. Miss. Mary also took a large party of Chula Vistans to our delightful suburb, La Jolla. ° No doubt she will succeed in convincing them that this north end of the bay has at least as many attractions as the south. Miss Laura Gearn, who has been visiting Miss Pearl Wagner, has been enjoying a week or two of ‘‘glorious’’ fun, boating, swimming and driving. In spite of the fact that she did get her nose freckled, Laura ecuiloe wait for school to begin but had to come out to see what we did during vacation, Vacation is almost gone! Miss Belle Jacoby, who has lately returned from her summer rusti- eating, and our old friend Miss Rosella Fishburn were welcome vis- itors at the college but a short time} ago. Belle is so improved in health that she will be able to attend school this year. “Brother’’ Jim was given a very pleasant celebration of his fifteenth _|an-ice time,” Charles Williams, a former fellow | birthday the evening of August 13th, The West American Sctenttst. at the Wagner cottage. ‘‘We had so Mr. Wagner said. student paid the college a short visit a few days ago. To Mrs. Davidson's kind thought- fulness must be attributed the unique idea of a combination birthd iy party, and not only the idea but the carry- ing out of the idea, in a most agree- - able manner So many of the birth- days ot the folks, httle and big, of the college, came in the month of August that something had to be done. Music by Mrs. Jewel, whose birthday came in the lucky month, and music by her wee, blue-eyed girl Frankie, games and dances in the assembly room in Stough Hall and delicious refreshments and then more games and fun and music was the ‘‘something’’ done. — THE AUGUST ST. NICHOLAS, 1890 St. Micholas has a charming front- ispiece for August. It is an illustra- tlon by Birch to the serial story ‘Lady Jane,’’ and shows the former dancing-master, who has become a_ ereengrocer, recalling his triumphs in teaching the pretty heroine the elaborate steps in vogue during his youth. The story itself is delightful. . Some of the summery features are “The White Mountain Coaching Parade’ of decorated tally-hos in competition for prizes, described in a sketchy way by Helen Marshall Norch;.* Ar Lessons of the Sea, by W. J. Henderson, a simple bit of strong descriptive writing; ‘‘A Re- markable Boat Race,’’ wherein Wal- ter Camp describes the Atalanta-Yale race and its sensational feature—the leaping from the boat of Yale’s stroke after he had broken his oar; “The Sea Princess,’’ a pretty picture de- scribed in musical verse by the artist Miss Katharine Pyle; ‘* Cupid and Crab,’’ an odd little fancy of the sea shore, daintily illustrated by Alber- tine Wheelan Randall; *‘ The Auda- cious Kitten,’? one of Oliver Her- ford’s jests with pen and pencil. .— School and Callene. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. The Chicago ews notes that eld- erly college men (especially as pres- idents) are disappearing, and are being succeeded by younger men. The University of California has a library of 38,000 volumes. In an interesting article in the Academy, by Professor V. M. Spald- ing, on Asa Gray the botanist, patience and aptitude in teaching after he became eminent, and his life, laborious in the cause of science, are especially dwelt upon. Evidently Dr. Gray regarded the function of a teacher as important as the labors of scientific research. His life work, the “Flora of North America,’’—how vast the subject!—nears completion in other hands than of those of the honored botanist of Cambridge. ‘‘The happiest of all callings, iN the most imperishable of all arts,” i what Mr. John Morley said of eee. ture at the recent Royal Academy banquet in London. ‘‘Professor,’’ said a graduate, try- ing to be pathetic at parting. “Tam indebted to you for all I know.” “Pray do not mention such a trifle,’’ was the unflattering reply. The Pail Mall Gazette recalls the snub that Carlyle i is said to have given an American university that proftered him the honor of LL.D. ‘‘That you shall ask me,’’ he wrote, ‘‘to join in leading your long lines of D.D.’s and LL.D.’s, a line of pompous little fellows, hobbling down to posterity on the crutches of two or three letters _ of the alphabet, passing on into the _ oblivion of all universities and small _ potatoes, is more than I can bear.’’ Carlyle was a great self-made man, no doubt; and still he was always in such an ill humor that nobody could _ feel that he was entirely pleased with the job. Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and re- flection must finish him.—£-x. , Literary and Educational Supplement. his | 23 The Qiienton Fes Tay} vreprhinentile Professor Frost, of Oberlin, for his diligence in inventing mental stimu- lants of his class. He has asked the members of the senior class to write out their respective creeds. It is to. be hoped none of these ‘‘creeds”’ will ever get outside of the college walls to swell the number of those already abroad. Work to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to- morrow.—P/iny. — NOTES AND NEWS. Sir Morrell McKenzie, than whom there is no better medical authority living, declares that smoking is de- cidedly injurious to the throat. He sayerentore!’ "Te deciarés’’ that” the’ « smoke of tobacco inhaled by those who do not use the weed is more in- jurious than to use tobacco. This is a terrible indictment. It is suggest- ed to the smoker how great a wrong he may commit upon his friend by forcing him to breathe the poisonous fumes of his pipe or cigar.—Fx. Oh, how heavily passes the time, — while an adventurous youth is yearn- ing to do his part in life, and to gath- er in the harvest of his own renown. How hard a lesson it is to wait. Our life is brief, and how much of it is spent in teaching us only this.— Flawthorne. Edgar L. Wakeman, in ‘‘Afoot in Ireland’’says of County ‘‘Connaught | and its “two roads’: When you have known these two roads as on> one foot may know them, and have followed your fancy for exploration among the quaint pleasant homes in the wilds between, you have wit- nessed the most interesting in scenery and people that can be found in any portion of Europe. , The greatest shipping company on | earth (or sea rather) is the North German Lloyd, with sixty-four steam- ~ ships. Their service of two ships a_ week out of New York requires twelve great steamers. Bremen ‘is ~ the eastern terminus of the line. — os The West American Sctent?st. a eB fy err th mer hp — rnb rena Bb? THE | LOVE OF > FLOWERS. “As the twig is bent the tree’s in- clined,’’ is a trite saying, the truth concluding installment, in September. In the new chapter of Mrs. Barr’s striking novel ‘‘ Friend Olivia’ the heroine sets sail for America with her of which we sometimes forget. Near- | father, who goes in search of relig- ly three thousand years ago the wis- est of men declared, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” - Most persons are born with a natural love for flowers. I never yet saw a toddler whose eyes did not light up with pleasure at the sight of bright blossoms, and whose fingers did not itch to hold in their grasp ‘‘the pitty flowers,’’ and’small boys show fully as,much liking therefor as their sis- ters. It is considered the proper thing for our girls to wear flowers, to love them and care for them, and so encouraged and trained, the ma- jority ot our girls grow up into flow- er-loving women. On the contrary, in many homes, the boys are made to feel that the love of flowers is ‘‘girlish,’’ and trust our modern boy for wanting at all times to be ‘‘man- nish!’ So our boys smother their natural liking with a forced indiffer- ence, which later,alas! becomes a sec- ond nature. Ninety-nine one-hun- dredths of the men and women who manifest this indifference never had their tastes cultivated in this direc- tion while young. It is freely ad- mitted that there is a refining, ele- vating’ influence about flowers; why, | . then, should not parents feel ita duty to encourage the love of the beauti- ful in bud and bloom.— lick’s Mag- agine for August. ——___—___—_e=____-—-— THE AUGUST CENTURY. It is because “The Anglomani- acs” presents a novel aspect of New York life with uncommon pith and} wit that the third part, in the August number of 7he Century, will be prob- ably that portion of the magazine to which most readers will first turn. They will find a crisis approaching in the devotion to Miss Lily Floyd- Curtis of Lord Melrose, and look rather keenly for a solution in the The ‘