8 THE NAUTILUS. 



W. G. W. HARFORD. 



We regret to record the death in Alameda, California, March 

 1st., of W. G. W. Harford, well known to all Pacific Coast natural- 

 ists. Mr. Harford was in the eighties and, up to a very recent date, 

 in the possession of all his faculties. He had been the associate of 

 the Trask, Veatch, Voy, Newcomb, Stearns, and other pioneer 

 Pacific Coast naturalists, and for a long time kept "bachelor's 

 hall " in a small shack on Telegraph Hill, with the late beloved 

 botanist Dr. A. Kellogg ; practically realizing the Scotch ideal of 

 high thinking " on a little oatmeal." " He was long a curator at the 

 Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and earned a precarious liveli- 

 hood by collecting seeds, plants and other objects of Natural History, 

 and by minor appointments at the University and other scientific in- 

 stitutions. He was especially interested in Conchology and was ap- 

 pointed naturalist to the U. S. Coast Survey expedition to Alaska 

 in 1867 under the direction of Professor George Davidson ; his re- 

 port is printed in the Annual Report of the U. S. Coast Survey for 

 1867, Appendix 18. 



He printed little and his life was devoted to helping others in their 

 researches. Over six feet in height, of a Lincolnian gauntness, and 

 a pioneer style of luxuriant beard and bushy eyebrows, his familiar 

 figure will be missed by the old members of the California Academy, 



to whose meetings he was perennially faithful. 



W. H. D. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



THE LYMNJSID^: OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, RECENT 

 AND FOSSIL. By Frank C. Baker (Chicago Academy of Sciences, 

 Special publication No. 3, Feb. 15, 1911.) Pages xvi -f 539, 58 

 plates). This handsome publication is the outcome of several years 

 of study by Mr. Baker, in the course of which all of the large col- 

 lections in this country containing type specimens have been exam- 

 ined. Chapters on the morphology, ecology, distribution, classifi- 

 cation and nomenclature, and descriptions of fossil species, precede 

 the systematic descriptions of the recent species, 65 in number, be- 

 sides numerous subspecies. 



85 species and varieties occur between latitude 38 and 60 ; 13 

 occur north of 60, 29 between 38 and 30, and only 7 south of 



